Apr. 18, 2025 — A team led by researchers say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and ...

Apr. 17, 2025 — A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as ...

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Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections are trending downward, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Zoetis received conditional USDA approval for an avian flu vaccine. Major poultry and dairy organizations back vaccine use to control the virus. The Trump administration is rolling out a new ...

A multi-state study reveals that many high-risk adults diagnosed with influenza (flu) in emergency departments and urgent care centers are not receiving timely antiviral treatment.

The 25,000-subject study is testing a nucleoside-modified mRNA (modRNA), quadrivalent vaccine that is targeted against four strains of the flu virus that the World Health Organization (WHO ...

In 2024, Robert Redfield, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned that it is “not a question of if, it’s more a question of when we will have a bird flu ...

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The road back to health after flu can be a particularly long one. Here we explain what you should be doing to build up your immune system and fight off any lingering effects. Have a Turkish bath ...

Health officials in Vietnam have reported a severe H5N1 avian flu infection in an 8-year-old girl who is experiencing encephalitis symptoms, which appears to mark the country's first human case of ...