The CDC experts said overall the studies show that influenza A may infect mammals through nonrespiratory routes. Though ...

An unusual therapy developed at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) could change the way the world fights influenza, one of the deadliest infectious diseases. In a new study in Science Advances, researchers ...

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil - In an unprecedented response to the rapid global spread of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI), ...

Human cases of avian flu are deadly, but historically rare, according to the CDC. A few have cropped up across the globe in places like China, Cambodia and Chile throughout the past year, but largely ...

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads across all 50 states, impacting US dairy farms and leading to human infections. Here's what to know.

Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr (left); Stock photo of a chicken (right) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) may have just cracked one of medicine’s biggest challenges: how to stop influenza ...

While vaccines can be very effective for preventing viruses, like the influenza A virus (IAV), they are often strain-specific and prone to viral escape mutations. IAV alone is responsible for around ...

In a bid to get ahead of the next global flu pandemic, scientists have turned to a surprising tool: bird poop. In remote parts of the Indian Ocean and Oceania — regions often neglected during global ...

Experts are on edge, fearing this will be the spring that the "catastrophic" H5 strain of bird flu arrives in Australia.

Dec. 19, 2005 (Washington) — By combining control measures, public health experts could sharply minimize the disruption caused by an influenza pandemic, according to a team of French investigators who ...