H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

A single dose of the antiviral baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza) led to a lower incidence of influenza virus transmission to ...

And in severe cases, flu symptoms can be serious enough to lead to hospitalization and death. Flu viruses are categorized ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

While most people recover from the flu within days, this fast-mutating virus can lead to serious illness—especially for the elderly, pregnant women, young children, and those with chronic ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...

Researchers from the School of Pharmacy The University of Nottingham in the UK, together with industrial paints manufacturer ...

They found that purified FRIL at 80 μg/mL of a two-gram gum tablet neutralized 95 percent of HSV-1 and HSV-2. Whereas at ...

Flu viruses are categorized into four types: A, B, C and D. Types A and B are the most harmful to humans and cause seasonal flu epidemics; in the Northern Hemisphere, flu season typically occurs ...