Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection -- among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

So far there’s been only one reported human case of bird flu in Texas this year in April and 46 total in the U.S., according ...

After killing millions of birds worldwide, the H5N1 avian flu is creeping like a black fog of death through U.S. dairy farms. Dead cows and calves infected with the virus ...

Pigs remain at the centre of scientists’ nightmare scenario because commercial swine carry lots of human flu viruses. Their cells share enough features with ours that flu viruses can use some of ...

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

There are many processes and proteins that help the body fight a flu infection. One of them is known as IFITM3. | ...

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 ...

A person has tested positive in British Columbia, Canadian health officials said, though the results must be sent to another ...

A Canadian teenager has been hospitalized with bird flu, the first human case of H5N1 in the current ... [+] outbreak detected in the country. A teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized ...

The swine flu pandemic of 2009 was a “quadruple-reassortant virus” made up of swine, avian and human flu genes. Over 60 million people got sick between April 2009-2010, and almost 12,500 ...

The first case of H5N1 strain in humans in the current outbreak in the US was detected in April 2024, with 44 cases in total now detected, according to the U.S. CDC. Here's all about avian flu ...

Pigs remain at the center of scientists’ nightmare scenario because commercial swine carry lots of human flu viruses. Their cells share enough features with ours that flu viruses can use some of ...