After a quiet summer, bird flu cases are rising again. Scientists expected the development, but what happens next is still ...

Questions abound about how to best inoculate the world against swine flu as health officials plan for a campaign that could dwarf any previous flu vaccination effort. Among the issues to be resolved ...

After a summer lull in U.S. cases of avian influenza in both poultry and dairy cattle—and no human infections reported in the ...

Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by University of Nebraska–Lincoln virologist Eric Weaver and his laboratory team. Research findings ...

Asymptomatic human avian influenza A (H5N1) infections occur, and person-to-person transmission is likely in some settings, ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections are trending downward, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...

East Cork poultry farmers are facing a worrying period with Fota Wildlife Park confirming an outbreak of bird flu ...

Influenza viruses are shifty entities. They accumulate small genetic changes on a regular basis, necessitating yearly updates to the flu vaccines because the prior year’s strain may not look much like ...

May 21 -- THURSDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Some older people may have partial immunity to the new H1N1 swine flu virus because of possible exposure to another H1N1 flu strain circulating prior to ...

Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a computer-designed vaccine that protects swine from flu—and may one day do the same for ...

Dr. Richard Besser traveled to China to report on the bird flu outbreak. April 16, 2013— -- HONG KONG -- A new strain of bird flu has been reported in China, and it has sickened 63 people and ...