An avian influenza pandemic remains within the realm of possibility. To reduce the risk, we need to engage in a One Health ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations ...

HHS announced the pullback on 22 mRNA vaccine-related projects funded by BARDA in a press release on Tuesday night. (BARDA ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus.

The threat of another influenza pandemic arising from bird-to-human and then human-to-human transmission drives continuing efforts to develop effective vaccines against avian influenza. In the latest ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus ...

Health officials have reported 266 influenza-related pediatric deaths to the CDC for the 2024-25 season — the highest number of pediatric deaths in any non-H1N1 flu pandemic season since 2004. Ninety ...

“Reassortment has played a major, major role in the emergence of pandemic influenza,” says Daniel Perez, a professor of poultry medicine at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, ...

NH epidemiologist Dr. Benjamin Chan emphasizes vaccines in interview discussing measles, flu, COVID-19, RSV and more.

Germany's CureVac and Britain's GSK have settled a years-long patent dispute with Pfizer and its partner BioNTech over the ...

The first paper from a multi-year clinical research study has been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The article ...