The most intense flu season in a decade has millions of Americans looking for relief — and wondering whether a prescription drug best known by the brand name Tamiflu is the answer. The antiviral ...

Elanco Animal Health said on Wednesday the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved its canine flu vaccine, which ...

A new long-acting influenza drug by Cidara Therapeutics demonstrated up to 76% protection against symptomatic flu in a phase ...

The FDA has approved three antiviral medications to treat flu this season: Tamiflu (generic name oseltamivir), Relenza (generic name zanamivir), and Rapivab (generic name permaivir).

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has merged H5N1 bird flu updates with routine updates for seasonal ...

The flu season is off to an early start this year. A number of states, particularly in the southeast, are already experiencing high levels of influenza-like illnesses, according to the Centers for ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has ended its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, citing a drop in ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At the same time, recent CDC data shows that seasonal influenza A is rising ...

Influenza is a common respiratory virus that is categorized into four types: A, B, C and D. Type C only causes mild infections and type D is not believed to infect humans.

Because influenza viruses were not isolated and cultured until the 1930s, it was not possible to study the origin of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic at the time of this virus's outbreak; indeed, the ...