Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) is investing in research to address the threat of H5N1, an avian influenza virus that poses a risk to poultry. Recently, British Columbia identified the first ...

The H5N1 Avian Bird Flu has been the talk of many health departments and agencies around the state of Indiana the last few ...

Through earlier partnerships between the B.C. government and Genome BC we have developed and deployed an innovative genomics technology to monitor avian influenza viruses in wetland ecosystems ...

Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) is investing in research to address the threat of H5N1, an avian influenza virus that poses a risk to poultry. Recently, British Columbia identified the first case ...

As highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in the U.S., posing serious threats to dairy and poultry farms, ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

A new low-cost sensor that detects airborne H5N1 avian flu in under five minutes, and a new vaccine approval sound good as ...

As cases of seasonal influenza surge, health officials are closely monitoring a growing threat—the potential fusion of human and bird flu strains.

Additional mutations in the viral polymerase proteins, which make copies of the viral genome, also help avian flu viruses to grow better in human cells. Yet more mutations will be needed for avian ...

As highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in the ... slower detection methods with polymerase chain reaction DNA tools. Chakrabarty noted that conventional test methods can ...