Pediatric patients exhibited high risk for severe avian influenza A/H5N1, suggesting clinical therapeutic and vaccine trials should be prioritized in this population.

A new PEARLS article in PLoS Pathogens reviews the rapid evolution and pandemic potential of emerging influenza A viruses, ...

Saint Louis University researchers are looking for a handful of volunteers who are willing to be infected with the influenza ...

During a call with U.S. doctors this month, one CDC official noted that there is a seasonality to bird flu: Cases peak in the ...

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way ...

The first major global review of bird flu in cats reveals an emerging threat of a potential human pandemic. Spring is here, ...

University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a right-handed, antiparallel double-helix inside influenza ...

Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a ...

The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

As bird flu sweeps across US poultry and cattle farms, researchers are racing to find ways to contain the outbreaks before ...

Brazil, one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of poultry, has confirmed the country’s first bird flu outbreak on ...