Amidst surging respiratory illnesses and previously controlled diseases like tuberculosis making alarming comebacks, a new CDC report provides further evidence bird flu is spreading undetected to ...

The winter flu season features two types of influenza. Here's what you need to know about them and how they differ.

Bird flu, also known as H5N1, continues to spread among U.S. livestock, driving up egg prices and worrying public health ...

Avian flu was found most often in two communities with important wild bird habitats, which the authors say points to wild ...

Thus, a type A virus isolated in 1995 in Memphis Tennessee with a strain number of 123 and an H5N1 subtype is designated: Influenza virus was first isolated 80 years ago in 1933. The first ...

“As oseltamivir is the most widely used therapeutic and prophylactic against IAV, the continued circulation of viruses ...

A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the ...

As bird flu spread among animals soars in the United States, hospitals are being told to proactively screen for potential human cases in influenza A patients. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

The study, “Seroprevalence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5) Virus Infections Among Bovine Veterinary Practitioners,” aimed to investigate the prevalence of recent H5N1 infection among ...

Influenza A accounts for around 75 percent of all cases and tends to cause more severe illness in adults. Influenza A is divided into subtypes based on two proteins on the virus's surface ...