Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Each human and mammalian infection gives the virus an opportunity to mutate and evolve better ways of transmitting from ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University ...

Flu spreads between people via viral particles in droplets expelled when an infected person coughs or sneezes ... body aches and exhaustion are typically the first symptoms to appear.

Immunity Against Seasonal H1N1 ... Month for Flu Shots Feb. 22, 2024 — First large-scale analysis of optimal timing for flu shots finds October is the best month for children to get vaccinated ...

Just as swine flu strains ... the person was exposed to sick birds or other sources of infection. As viruses replicate within the cells of their host, their genetic information can get copied ...

As most people know, influenza is seasonal and occurs primarily in the winter, spreading from person to person ... If you ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it aims to accomplish within four years a scientific feat ...