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Avian flu confirmations in California dairy workers reach 6
The new confirmations push the national total of H5 cases this year to 20. All but one are related to contact with sick cows ...
Bird flu patient had no apparent contact with animals—there's still no evidence of sustained human-to-human spread
Six health care workers in the US who were in close contact with a patient known to have bird flu developed mild respiratory ...
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Sharks and rays leap out of the water for many reasons, including feeding, courtship and communication
Research by A. Peter Klimley on sharks and rays breaching reveals it functions mainly to remove parasites, attract mates, or hunt prey.
STAT19d
Sequencing wastewater material may be the key to getting a grip on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak
Dhillon is an instructor in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Karan is an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist at ...
Chronicle5mon
New Strategy Could Lead to Universal, Long-Lasting Flu Shot
The H (sometimes HA), is hemagglutinin, a lollipop-shaped protein that binds to a receptor on a human cell, the first step toward getting the virus inside the cell. The N is neuraminidase, a second ...
eLife10mon
Cervical cancer screening improvements with self-sampling during the COVID-19 pandemic
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic cervical screening in the capital region of Sweden was canceled for several months. A series of measures to preserve and improve the cervical screening under the ...
eLife5y
Mapping person-to-person variation in viral mutations that escape polyclonal serum targeting influenza hemagglutinin
Many of these antibodies bind to a protein on the surface of the virus called hemagglutinin, but each anti-flu antibody recognizes only a small region of the protein. This means that to escape ...