Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

Flu A and flu B are two different strains of influenza, explains Thomas Russo, M.D., professor and chief of infectious ...

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. It can range from mild ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...

A new antibody therapy effectively protects monkeys from severe H5N1 avian flu, offering hope for a universal flu vaccine and ...

Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused ...

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 ... for viruses isolated during the 1900s); The subtype [16 possible hemagglutinin and 9 possible neuraminidase subtypes].

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today confirmed H5N1 avian flu ...

Recent history makes clear that microbiological disasters can strike anytime. But a longer history should remind us of the ...

The antibody targets a stable part of the bird flu virus, ensuring that the immune protection can resist new variants and offer long-term protection against the globally spreading airborne infection.