The State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the InnoHK Center for ...

HKU State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases and InnoHK Centre for Virology, Vaccinology and Therapeutics Successfully Develop Nasal ...

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next ...

In today's interconnected world, infectious diseases pose an escalating threat, as demonstrated by the coronavirus pandemic ...

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may ...

“This is how pandemics start.” This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at panzootic—animal pandemic—status, killing birds in every ...

Almost 450 people have died of flu this year in North Carolina, the highest death toll since tracking began in 2008.

A study published by the Chair for Avian Health and Biosecurity at the National Veterinary College of Toulouse, Toulouse, ...

Democratic attorneys general and governors in 23 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of ...

In the case of viral chatter, the message would be a human pandemic. Sporadic, individual cases of H5N1 among people suggest that human-to-human transmission may likely occur at some point.