H5N1 avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, has infected more than 100 million birds in the U.S. and almost 500 ...

Nuzzo said there are other hypotheses — which she stressed are just hypotheses — including one that posits people who were ...

The presentation, so brief as to be little more than a public service announcement, signals an abandonment of efforts to ...

A Canadian teen who is in critical condition after contracting H5N1 bird flu was infected with a version of the virus that is different from the one circulating in U.S. cattle.

A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals, only about a third of the seals normally expected here ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection—among them, raising ...

Swine can act as so-called “mixing vessels” for human and bird flus, giving avian viruses an opportunity to adapt for spreading in people.

Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in American dairy herds and poultry flocks, Canadian officials have announced that a ...

when it started a swine flu pandemic. That pandemic wasn’t as deadly as scientists initially feared, thanks to changes in the virus and our immunity. People and pigs seem to exchange viruses ...

The source of the H1N1 pandemic – also known as ‘swine flu’ – pigs have also been implicated as the source of other influenza outbreaks, and are described as being a “mixing vessel ...

The bird flu outbreak killed over 17,000 elephant seals, including almost 97% of the pups, and left a scar on this vulnerable population.