Head of state veterinary lab says cuts to federal employees will disrupt data sharing, coordinated approach to fighting bird ...

Multiple FDA labs were cut amid Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s layoffs this week.

Existing flu antivirals may not work well against H5N1 ... Given the risks to human health, the scientists used a mouse model to test how each antiviral drug worked against the virus when it was ...

Low vaccination rates for influenza viruses and the lack of an HSV vaccine underscore the need for a new approach to reduce viral transmission. Researchers have now used a clinical-grade antiviral ...

US researchers have developed an antiviral chewing gum using lablab beans that can reduce viral loads of herpes (HSV-1, HSV-2) and influenza A (H1N1, H3N2) by over 95 per cent in lab tests. The gum, ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

The current 60-day minimum for aging raw milk cheese may not be long enough to kill all pathogens present in it.

In a nutshell A plant-based chewing gum made from lablab beans can trap and neutralize flu and herpes viruses in the lab, ...

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

The new research-- funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-- demonstrates that this aging alone may not inactivate the H5N1 bird flu virus. The same team had previously shown that the H5N1 ...

Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may ... that was funded by the US Food and Drug Administration. Raw milk cheeses ...

She had been closely working to coordinate the agency's bird flu response with CVM's veterinarians, as well as to lead its oversight of human drugs and vaccines for the virus. "I am sad that this ...