Older adults who were exposed to seasonal flu viruses that circulated prior to 1968 are more likely to have some protection against H5N1, and children would benefit more from H5N1 vaccines.

Early flu exposure helps immunity against H5N1 infection, with older adults having stronger antibody responses.

Live poultry markets in New Jersey where bird flu was found have reopened after being disinfected. Cat owners get an avian ...

I think there are some states that are responsive, but it’s really been somewhat piecemeal…It leaves room for us to not ...

As outbreaks for several diseases are being monitored across the U.S., state DPH Commissioner Robbie Goldstein has an update on the ongoing public health initiatives in Massachusetts.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday made recommendations to vaccine manufacturers for the virus strains to be ...

Prior exposures to specific types of seasonal influenza viruses promote cross-reactive immunity against the H5N1 avian ...

Prior exposures to specific types of seasonal influenza viruses promote cross-reactive immunity against the H5N1 avian ...

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...

Catani and colleagues provide data on antigenic properties of neuraminidase proteins of pandemic H1N1 and show that antigenic diversity of the neuraminidase from 2009 to 2020 largely falls into two ...