H5N1 influenza viral lineages beginning to evade human immunological defenses

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants’ immunoprotein interactions – developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is evolving to escape immunological defenses raised by previous infection or vaccination in mammals.

Published on March 17 in eBioMedicine, part of The Lancet, the team’s new research provides urgent findings as avian influenza poses an ongoing threat to global agricultural interests and raises increasing alarms for human health. Read the full story…