Decades of research show the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal is safe in vaccines, but CDC's new advisory panel is ...

A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus causes ...

“In our results, a substantial proportion of infections was prevented when transmissibility was similar to that encountered in typical influenza seasons, vaccine effectiveness was within the ranges ...

New analysis warns that suboptimal clinical trial designs and overreliance on surrogate markers may allow less effective flu ...

The ACT looks set to record its worst flu season, with Canberra general practitioners seeing a recent spike in influenza cases.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering vaccination plans to protect poultry and cattle, including dairy cows, from ...

Researchers successfully decoded the genome of the 1918 influenza virus by utilizing an over 100-year-old formalin-fixed ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...