The H5N1 avian influenza virus has infected birds and mammals around the world. As of June 2025, 70 people have been infected ...

The worldwide spread of H5N1 avian influenza has raised concerns that this virus might acquire the ability to pass readily among humans and cause a pandemic. Two anti-influenza drugs currently ...

In China in 2013, H7N9, or avian influenza A, was seen in poultry and in people who worked closely with poultry. ... In one new study, researchers turn to a mutant virus to design a vaccine.

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The pandemic threat posed by avian influenza viruses highlights the need for new safe and efficient vaccines. However, several unique obstacles are faced by researchers in the development of these ...

The money will be used to design and test another vaccine too, this time for H7N9—another form of bird flu, not the one behind the current U.S. outbreak—in a phase-three clinical study.

Better by design: Engineering flu vaccines New method could improve vaccines for both seasonal flu and bird flu HOUSTON -- (March 17, 2009) -- A new computerized method of testing could help world ...

College Park, Md. - A new study by University of Maryland researchers suggests that the potential for an avian influenza virus to cause a human flu pandemic is greater than previously thought ...

Stanford Medicine scientists have designed a way to make our seasonal influenza vaccinations more broadly effective and possibly to protect us from new flu variants with pandemic potential. In a ...

By 1955 it was determined to be a type A influenza virus, and in 1981, it became known as avian influenza, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.