The Free Press interviewed Dr. Kimberly Dodd, the dean of the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine, about efforts to tame the ...

The CDC on Thursday urged labs nationwide to determine within 24 hours of admission whether people hospitalized with the flu ...

Seasonal influenza vaccines triggered protective immune responses against the H5N1 avian influenza virus primarily in younger ...

Horses carry their own form of flu virus, and researchers say that if the two viruses combine, the consequences are unknown ...

State experts say that human risk for bird flu remains low and that there have so far been no human cases in Connecticut.

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

Groulx said the evolution of a pandemic strain “is a pressing concern,” and has been seen before. In 2009, the H1N1 virus — also called the swine flu — was a “re-assortment of avian influenza, human ...

The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in ...

For months, bird flu has been on Desiree’ Moffitt’s mind ... Humans and pigs share many biological traits that can amplify ...

Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...