New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

A strain of bird flu that has jumped from animals to people in the United States could find its way to Europe, EU scientists have warned in a new report. EU-US trade of “raw milk” products and wild ...

South Africa has reported outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on two poultry farms in the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on ...

While Sicky doesn’t know if the increase in Covid-related sick note requests is due to the new NB. 1.8.1 Covid variant, because they don’t track the exact strain people have, Mr Vazirani said ...

Five years after Covid-19 reached New Zealand shores, we are bracing for the arrival of another deadly virus: a strain of bird flu called H5N1. Follow Our Changing World on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to ...

Compared to the standard shot, the mRNA vaccine had an overall vaccine efficacy that was 26.6 percent higher, and 27.4 ...

The team produced viruses expressing 78 distinct hemagglutinin (HA) proteins from 2023-circulating flu viruses and recent vaccine strains, and tagged each one with a unique genetic ‘barcode’.

Credit: (2025). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.106811.1 A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a ...

Moderna said on Monday its influenza vaccine was found to be 26.6% more effective than an approved annual flu shot from GSK ...

The team produced viruses expressing 78 distinct hemagglutinin (HA) proteins from 2023-circulating flu viruses and recent vaccine strains, and tagged each one with a unique genetic ‘barcode’.