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

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

The vaccine for H1N1 flu (swine flu) will be available in the fall of 2009. This vaccine is separate from the usual seasonal flu vaccine. Pregnant women are first on the list of those who should ...

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

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.

Viruses work by taking control of our cells and carefully reprogramming them into machines to make more viruses. Because of ...

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

The deadly 1918 flu jumped from people to pigs in the 1920s. It then jumped back into humans periodically, most recently in ...

Pigs were the source of the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009-2010, and have been implicated as the source of others ... Pigs and poultry on the farm were culled to prevent the spread of the virus and enable ...

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.

Scientists in the US have expressed concern about the detection of the first case of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) flu in a ...

H5N1 avian flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in hogs in the ...