It’s difficult to predict what this year’s flu season is going to be like. But it’s a good time to start thinking about ...

The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that infect the nose, throat, and lungs. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. The best way to ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook ...

One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker. There have ...

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may eventually evolve the ability to infect a new species, such as humans, through a ...

According to a new study, a component found in all mushrooms could offer protection against lung damage caused by the flu. A team of scientists led by Maziar Divangahi, a professor at ...

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next ...

The bird flu is about much more than egg prices, and it’s an open question whether industry or policy can slow the spread.

It’s a scene that keeps repeating itself, again and again, on poultry farms large and small across America.

Kennedy Jr. proposed a novel fix to the nation’s bird flu epidemic: Let the virus spread. Andrew Harnik / Getty Images “They should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the US. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...