The winter flu season features two types of influenza. Here's what you need to know about them and how they differ.

Undergraduate and graduate physics students at UMaine Hess Lab in Orono are currently working on research that if proven, ...

A report published by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) details the characterization of viral sequences obtained from the milk of ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

Influenza is a highly contagious viral infection that affects the respiratory system. Although often dismissed as a seasonal ...

What’s the difference between Flu A vs. flu B? Doctors explain the two common strains of the flu, including symptoms, ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 67 confirmed human cases of H5N1 bird flu ...

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

Experts stressed that the new strain did not itself appear to be an immediate human threat. But the rise of a new strain is troubling and points to the risk of a viral phenomenon known as ...

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

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled “A single mutation in ...