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 ...

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 ...

Australia is reporting high numbers of influenza, respiratory syncytial ... to increased testing since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Because of the pandemic threat, people want ...

Cambridge's DIOSynVax and Singapore's ACM Biolabs will be jointly developing a next-generation universal bird flu vaccine with the potential for mucosal delivery to combat the next pandemic. This ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The study warns that this "immunity debt" could lead to major flu outbreaks in the years following a pandemic, as populations regain susceptibility to other viruses. "Our findings provide evidence ...