New research suggests that past exposure to seasonal flu viruses may help protect people from severe illness caused by the ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

HHS is re-evaluating a nearly $600 million contract with Moderna to develop and test vaccines against flu viruses that could ...

Thankfully, in 2025, the days of lockdowns and quarantines now seem a distant memory for many—even though the physical, ...

We live in an era when human activities are negatively modifying the world at alarming rates. We are experiencing a massive ...

WE must act now to stop a bird flu pandemic and “save lives,” experts warn. The H5N1 strain has already spread from birds to ...

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...

The emergence of bird flu in Florida, particularly its impact on dolphins, raises concerns about potential human transmission ...

How could the virus be everywhere but still, somehow, in the CDC’s estimation, not likely to cause a pandemic? H5N1 is already a panzootic. It spreads easily among birds via their digestive ...

Younger adults and children would benefit more from H5N1 vaccines, even those not tailored specifically to the current str ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm about a concerning genetic mutation of the H5N1 bird flu virus, recently identified in four ...

The pandemic served as a boot camp for Rhode Island public health officials and infectious diseases doctors, preparing them for future health crises ...