In scenes more comfortably watched in a TV drama, the largest-ever British simulation of a disease outbreak took place this ...

Fever slows seasonal flu by blocking viral replication, but bird-flu strains resist heat. New research reveals why—and what ...

The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers are willingly catching ...

The death from bird flu of a person in Washington is a reminder that avian flu is circulating widely during flu season, ...

Authorities say bird flu poses a low risk to people right now, but in animals — both wild and domestic — it's causing global ...

A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the devastation of COVID-19, if the H5N1 virus mutates to spread easily ...

Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering ...

Despite a relatively slow start to the flu season, U.S. schools are preparing for an increase in absences and sick children as a new variant gains momentum. The flu vaccine for the ...

Unlike seasonal flu strains, people have no existing antibodies against H5 viruses, meaning immunity among the population is ...

Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, ...

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...

Influenza is spreading rapidly in Japan, with the pace of infections being the fastest in the past decade. As the peak period ...