Bird flu may be a respiratory virus, but it still spreads through ground traffic. The shoes people wear every day could ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

The start of the flu season needs to be a reminder to safeguard ourselves by getting the flu vaccine. The vaccine is available at government and private healthcare facilities, inc ...

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

A multi-state study reveals that many high-risk adults diagnosed with influenza (flu) in emergency departments and urgent care centers are not receiving timely antiviral treatment. Researchers found ...