The case fatality risk for patients hospitalized with avian influenza A H7N9 virus may be lower than previously estimated, but the virus may reappear when the weather cools, according to data from ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 216, Supplement 4: Animal Influenza Viruses of Zoonotic Concern (15 September 2017), pp. S566-S574 (9 pages) Background. Neuraminidase (NA) inhibitors are the ...

Total number of new bird flu cases across the country rose to 47. April 13, 2013— -- Officials in Beijing confirmed today that a 7-year-old girl is infected with H7N9 avian influenza, widening ...

A new strain of a highly pathogenic bird flu known as H7N9 has surfaced at a poultry farm in Mississippi where chickens are raised for breeding. The finding of the new strain came as researchers ...

William J. Liu, Jun Li, Rongrong Zou, Jingcao Pan, Tao Jin, Liqiang Li, Peipei Liu, Yingze Zhao, Xinfen Yu, Haoqiu Wang, Guang Liu, Hui Jiang, Yuhai Bi, Lei Liu, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Yingxia Liu, George F.

Multi-center Phase I clinical study will evaluate the safety and tolerability of a monovalent strain of avian influenza A (H7N9) vaccine delivered intradermally by Vaxxas’ high-density microarray ...

Health officials say the situation is “serious” after a domestic worker was hospitalized in November. H7N9, an influenza virus that normally infects birds such as chickens and wild geese, first jumped ...

Flu season may be coming to an end in some parts of the world, but a new influenza virus harbored by birds may be starting its global assault. On Tuesday, China reported four more cases of infection ...

“[The] study reveals the increased H9N2 prevalence in poultry farms in China, due to the emergence of a more infectious and antigenically distinct H9N2 genotype,” Tommy Tsan-Yuk Lam of the University ...

The new strain of bird flu infecting and killing people in China is on the move. All of the reported cases had been contained to a relative few hotspots, but the first reported case of a human ...