The winter flu season features two types of influenza. Here's what you need to know about them and how they differ.

India's apex health research body has warned that H5N1 infection in humans has a high case fatality rate, exceeding 50 ...

It means that this virus can now replicate outside of the confines of the respiratory tract, get into other organs and cause ...

The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 very quickly ... The subtype [16 possible hemagglutinin and 9 possible neuraminidase subtypes]. Thus, a type A virus isolated in 1995 in ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a newer variant of the H5N1 virus. That variant is called H5N1 D1.1, the USDA ...

U.S. approves conditional use of avian influenza vaccine amid spreading outbreak U.S. greenlights temporary use of bird flu ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers wrote.

The state of Michigan has confirmed the flu has killed two children making them the first pediatric flu deaths in the state ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported the outbreak of the new strain, H5N9, earlier this week.