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While the fall and winter seasons bring many fun holidays and enjoyable activities for friends and family to do together, this is also the time of…

September 25, 20254 min readCow Udders Could Brew Up Dangerous New Bird Flu StrainsCells in cow udders could act as a site for human flu and…

It is easy to imagine how it could happen. A petrel, flying east from the Indian Ocean at the end of the Austral winter, makes landfall…

Bird Flu on Dairy Farms May Be Airborne After AllInfectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air…

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of…

Gene-Swaps Could Let Influenza Jump SpeciesInfluenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three…