The start of the flu season needs to be a reminder to safeguard ourselves by getting the flu vaccine. The vaccine is available at government and private healthcare facilities, inc ...

A trial of the influenza antiviral baloxavir suggests that the drug could be used as post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent ...

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

One dose of the antiviral baloxavir marboxil lowers the chance of transmitting the influenza virus to family members by about ...

One dose of the antiviral baloxavir marboxil lowers the chance of transmitting the influenza virus to family members by about ...

A virus that can cause a polio-like illness among children has been found in Bay Area wastewater as influenza cases spike.

But by then, bird flu will have already circled the globe. In October 2024, for the first time, the virus was found in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories, on Possession Island in the ...

The influenza A virus has at least 19 options for the H protein and 11 for the N protein, most of which are present in the various flu strains infecting wild waterfowl. H5N1 flu has version 5 of ...

and is one of several strains related to seasonal flu outbreaks. A colorized transmission electron micrograph shows swine influenza virus particles (blue) attached to and budding off of a cell ...

“The virus doesn’t care what your immigration papers say.” State and local health departments were beginning to overcome last year’s barriers to bird flu testing, said Salvador Sandoval, a doctor who ...

The disease is difficult to control because it is spread easily through the droppings of wild birds that carry the avian flu virus. Bird flu has also infected other animals, including dairy cattle ...