Recommendations on the strain composition of influenza virus vaccines for the 2025-2026 US season have been issued by FDA.

Q: What is avian influenza? Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is a viral infection that primarily affects birds but ...

Newfoundland and Labrador's Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture says a suspected case of avian influenza has been reported in a domestic flock of birds in Conception Bay South.

Influenza typically peaks in mid-to-late February before fading in mid-to-late March. Meanwhile, the weekly DHHS respiratory virus dashboard update listed 17% of hospital emergency room patients ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins recently announced a $1 billion-dollar comprehensive strategy to curb highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), protect ... measures have ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

Bird flu “is adapting to mammals, and it continues to show new tricks,” Nelson tells The Verge. The virus is spreading widely ...

Avian influenza, also known as Bird Flu, is a viral infection that spreads among birds, cows, and other animals, according to ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants’ immunoprotein interactions – developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...

H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn that past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.

Previous exposures to older flu strains prime the immune system to produce antibodies against bird flu (H5N1).