A component found in all fungi may provide a shield against flu-related lung damage, according to a new study.

The flu virus is changing in ways never seen before, increasing infections and raising concerns about vaccine effectiveness and public health risks.

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

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

But what exactly is the difference between Influenza A and Influenza B? NEWS10 spoke with the New York State Department of ...

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health.

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...

In February 2024, government veterinarians in the Czech Republic investigating a bird flu outbreak found themselves in the ...

Experts say this is the worst flu season in the U.S. in more than a decade and cases are still trending up. Flu infections have reached the highest level since the winter of 2010 and 2011 when the ...

The main symptoms of norovirus include signs of gastroenteritis, Martinello says. A mild norovirus infection might just cause ...

The U.S. has seen earlier and more intense surges of the flu and RSV this year than is typical, pediatrician Dr. Ryan Fulton notes.