NIH program to make vaccines against pathogens that can trigger pandemics uses approach pioneered in last century ...

Experts urge U.S. to prepare for possible new pandemic as H5N1 bird flu outbreak spreads with dairy animal and human cases. Here's what to know.

The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

Scientist and doctors from around the world are raising warning flags about the bird flu that has decimated poultry ...

Bird flu viruses are strains of influenza that circulate in birds ... We do not yet know if this variant of the virus could ...

Flu viruses are wily because they mutate from season ... virus that’s been chemically tweaked so it can’t infect human cells. The project comes from work being driven by Dr. Matthew Memoli ...

As worries grow about the potential for a bird flu pandemic, leading virologists warn there's a rising threat from H5N1 and ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

Each human and mammalian infection gives the virus an opportunity to mutate and evolve better ways of transmitting from ...

The five available in New Zealand are Influvac Tetra, Flucelvax Quad, Fluad Quad, FluQuadri, and Afluria Quad. Drug-buying ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it aims to accomplish within four years a scientific feat ...