Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ...

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

H1N1 influenza A spread rapidly with alarming, early results. Health care professionals armed with a historical perspective and the latest treatment guidelines are best equipped to respond.

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

There are other types of flu that primarily infect animals, like bird flu and now swine flu. The real name for swine flu is H1N1 flu. It is called swine flu because a virus that causes this flu ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Kemble said Thursday that the state Department of Health is not yet able to determine whether the specimen collected last week ...

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...

Canadian officials have announced that a teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.

Hope is on the horizon for needle-phobic patients as Griffith University researchers have created a new influenza vaccine ...

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in a backyard farm in Oregon, the ...

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.

Chicago | Reuters—H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.