The Trump administration has said that it’s just reorganizing the bureaucracy and is prepared to handle biothreats. But our ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Premier David Crisafulli has refused to say whether he has received a flu vaccination while defending the state government's ...

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, ...