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Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) represents a threat to animal and human health, with the ongoing H5N1 outbreak within the H5 2.3.4.4b clade being one of the largest on record. However, it rem...

Dr Liam Brierley is a Research Fellow at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. In today’s guest post, he talks about the value of using comedy as a tool for communicating r…

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Autism is a neurodevelopmental phenotype characterized by challenges with socialization (1). Officially classified as an intellectual disability (2), the term “neurodivergent” (antonym: “neurotypical”...

18 fully funded studentships for October 2026 start: interdisciplinary infection bioscience training to address disease threats to human and animal health.

The panzootic of highly pathogenic H5N1 since 2021 was driven by around nine introductions into the Atlantic and Pacific flyways, followed by rapid dissemination through wild migratory birds, primaril...

Analysis of RNA polymerase hallmark gene phylogenies supported by protein structure relationships of flaviviruses and ‘flavi-like’ viruses underpins the taxonomic expansion and reorganization of Flavi...

Avian influenza remains a serious risk to human health via zoonotic transmission, as well as a feasible pandemic threat. Although limited zoonotic cases have resulted from the current epizootic outbre...