Two world heritage attractions in Spain's popular tourist region of Andalusia were on Thursday among sites affected by a bird ...

The World Health Organization on Monday raised its pandemic alert level in response to the outbreak of swine flu that originated in Mexico. The move from level three to level four on the WHO's ...

Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director, was driving to the ...

A Sunderland woman celebrating her 103rd birthday surrounded by generations of family, friends and members of the community, says it will be hard to beat. The former seamstress proved she has ...

A former Dewhirst seamstress proved she has birthdays all sewn up when she celebrated her 103rd this month. When Kitty North ...

BEIJING, Aug 11 (Reuters) - China has banned imports of poultry and related products from Spain over an avian influenza outbreak, China's customs administration said in a notice dated August 7 ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Laura holds a Master's in ...

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first complete influenza A genome with a precise date from Europe. It offers new ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...

In Hong Kong in 1997, eighteen people were infected with bird flu. Six of them died. This was the first time the highly infectious disease H5N1 had ever been seen in humans – and it raised the alarm. ...