The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people ...

Bird flu (H5N1) primarily affects birds but has spread to mammals, including humans. While human transmission remains rare, ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

Flu A and flu B are two different strains of influenza, explains Thomas Russo, M.D., professor and chief of infectious ...

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a ...

Where has bird flu been reported in Illinois? Are my pets at risk? Should I still be eating eggs? Here’s what to know about ...

ADH routinely conducts influenza surveillance and has ... Genetic sequencing of the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed at least 20 million globally, indicated it may have had ...

The first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry has been reported in California on a duck farm leading to the culling of ...

it is very hard to raise ducks without many low path influenza viruses," said Swayne. Swayne said ducks often need the lowest dose of virus to be infected with bird flu viruses, compared to other ...