US officials announced in late March 2024 that dairy cows in Texas were experiencing an epidemic of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus or HPAI H5N1.
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Despite being influenced by prior vaccinations, the new vaccine produces widely neutralizing antibodies in response.
Biopreparedness and virological surveillance involves studying the causes that favor zoonotic spillover and facilitates human-to-human transmission.
Researchers at The Rockefeller University have discovered that bacteria sense phages via a defensive response called CBASS that detects viral RNA
