This was also the first year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that deaths from flu surpassed deaths from COVID.

Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

Washington state recorded 388 influenza-related deaths between late 2024 and early 2025. Here’s why this winter’s flu season was so severe.

The emerging technology offers an alternative to conventional UVC light, which is used to sanitize surfaces but can harm the ...

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has issued a bird flu warning after 19 birds were found to have died from the disease, and the H5N1 variant has been found on both sides of the Irish border ...

Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts to prevent and detect bird flu infections among farmworkers, ...

This isn’t just an animal health crisis — it’s a risk to public health. When animals consume foods containing live virus, ...

World Health Organization members are finalizing plans for nations to share life-saving technology with developing countries ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — Scientists have pioneered an influenza virus vector-based nasal spray vaccine platform and developed a nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine. During the early COVID-19 pandemic ...

The "next pandemic" is not "theoretical" but an "epidemiological certainty," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...