By Dr. Chinta Sidharthan Scientists reveal the mammary gland's hidden role in influenza A infections, spotlighting the urgent ...

Horses carry their own form of flu virus, and researchers say that if the two viruses combine, the consequences are unknown ...

The U.S. has developed a bird flu vaccine that can be prepared when needed. It’s not currently available because health ...

Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...

Medical experts advise that people should get a vaccine for the bird flu when it becomes commercially available. One doctor ...

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

We're confident beef, pasteurized milk and dairy products made with pasteurized milk products on shelves are safe, write the USDA and HHS chiefs.

Antiviral drugs can be used for the treatment of influenza and the prevention of seasonal and post-exposure influenza. Four antiviral drugs are available for the prevention and treatment of ...

Antiviral drugs can be used to prevent influenza in people who have been exposed to infection from individuals diagnosed with influenza. The efficacy of oseltamivir and zanamivir for post-exposure ...

FILE - This undated electron microscopic image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows two Influenza A (H5N1) virions, a type of bird flu virus. (Cynthia Goldsmith ...

More Americans are being infected with seasonal influenza and seeking care, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. “It is clearly the season,” Dr. Eduardo Azziz ...

Scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified mutations in H5N1 bird flu infections — in hospitalized patients in Louisiana and British Columbia — that may ...