Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Prompted by the re-emergence of avian influenza, governments, NGOs and major businesses around the world have poured resources into preparing for a pandemic. Because of my history of the 1918 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led many countries around the world to implement strict public health measures like lockdowns, social distancing, mask wearing, and travel restrictions. While these steps were ...

It has been shown in vitro to cover all major influenza A strains that have arisen since the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic and is designed as a universal prophylactic for influenza A.

Bill Whitaker: One of your colleagues told us that if this should spiral into a pandemic, this flu could make Covid ... correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

The 2004 vaccine crisis is placed in the framework of other major influenza pandemics, and it is linked to key global and national economic and political forces. The book also describes the ...

The flu family is described as high risk for both pandemics and epidemics ... For example, coronaviruses and retroviruses were not widely regarded as major threats before SARS-CoV-1 and HIV-1 emerged, ...

Influenza A virus can produce sudden and unpredictable pandemics. Influenza A viruses ... [50] The antigenic shift is responsible for the major antigenic changes registered in human influenza ...

The first recorded influenza pandemic occurred in 1518 ... Initially identified in China in 1996, the first major outbreak of H5 family avian flu occurred in North America in 2014-2015.