By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

More than 60 Canada geese, swans, and ducks were found dead in Plymouth, state officials said Sunday, suspecting the cause to be highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI. The outbreak occurred ...

the more likely it is to mutate to become transmissible between humans and cause a potential bird flu pandemic. These mutations could also cause changes in symptoms, possibly making them more mild ...

Even in rich countries, demand for oxygen overwhelmed hospitals in the first wave of the pandemic. In low- and middle-income countries, where nine out of ten hospitals had no medical-oxygen ...

Bird flu has been detected in a commercial poultry ... but public health officials fear that the virus has the potential to morph into a pandemic. Drew Kann is a reporter at The Atlanta Journal ...

Age shift during the 1918 pandemic was extreme, in which the majority of deaths occurred among individuals under 45 years of age, sparing people above this age. During the 2009 influenza pandemic ...

Americans are in the throes of flu season in large swaths of the country. And it may get worse soon. The United States’ highest month for flu illnesses is usually February, according to the CDC.

Bird flu was detected in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia for the first time since the current outbreak started in 2022, officials announced on Friday. The positive case of the H5N1 strain of ...

It’s the Sick Apple. Norovirus infections jumped a stomach-turning 159% last month compared to the same span last year in NYC, where flu cases are also up nearly 25% so far in 2025, city ...