The United States is experiencing its most severe flu season in more than a decade, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

a swine flu and a human flu. And that’s what led to the 2009 H1n1 pandemic.” There’s no evidence that human and bird flu viruses have mixed. However, different strains of avian flu have ...

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 ...

Flu hospitalizations and doctor visits are at a 15-year high. Why is this flu season so bad? Doctors discuss influenza trends ...

While a pandemic is not inevitable, the spread of the bird flu virus, also known as H5N1, has surpassed worrisome milestones in the United States. In the past year, chicken flocks at poultry farms ...

With so much H5N1 circulating in the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic.

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

We may never get there. We may never get to a point where the virus has all the mutations it needs to set off a human pandemic. But what the experts I talked to are saying is every time the virus ...

This has led to growing fears that bird flu may eventually be able to spread between humans, signaling the start of a pandemic. Senator Peters called on the White House's Office of Pandemic ...

Bird flu has led to a wide variety of symptoms during recent outbreaks, including common flu symptoms like cough and vomiting. Many have also had conjunctivitis or pink eye as their only symptom, ...

The US is in the throes of an unusually intense and severe flu season, with hospitalization rates topping the levels seen with Covid-19 at some points of the pandemic. On top of the flu infection ...