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

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

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

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

A landmark study reveals that a single oral dose of baloxavir marboxil (baloxavir) significantly reduces the transmission of influenza within households, marking a major advancement in influenza ...

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 ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University ...

"Although vaccines will remain the primary control measure for influenza epidemics and pandemics, antiviral drugs play a complementary role, particularly in a pandemic scenario, as well as in ...

In anticipation of the next major global pandemic, it is paramount that the ... outbreaks of infectious illnesses such as cholera, influenza, and typhoid over the past 400 years in the Proceedings ...

Bird flu continues to appear to pose a "low risk ... But the agency's scientists ran into roadblocks investigating a human case of this "pandemic potential" virus this year, they said in a new ...