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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...