The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War was coming to ...

Recommendations on the strain composition of influenza virus vaccines for the 2025-2026 US season have been issued by FDA.

The detection of bird flu in a sheep is another sign that the H5N1 virus is adapting to hop to new hosts ...

Emerging and re-emerging viral infections pose a constant threat to animals. In recent years there is sudden increase in the number of emerging and ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...

Catani and colleagues provide data on antigenic properties of neuraminidase proteins of pandemic H1N1 and show that antigenic diversity of the neuraminidase from 2009 to 2020 largely falls into two ...

Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) internalization is clathrin ... Cytokines are most probably involved in the pathogenesis of CCHFV disease. CCHFV has evolved a novel strategy ...

Zydus Lifesciences on Wednesday (February 26, 2025) said it is introducing a vaccine for protection against new strain of influenza virus. “The company is introducing country’s first flu ...

These pandemic influenza viruses in the human population occur every 10 to 20 years, but this has not happened yet with this bird flu virus, which, in its previous forms, has changed over time and ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused ... tracked the evolution of influenza during chronic infections ...

Below, Jennifer answers some of our most pressing questions on the highly contagious virus. As you mentioned in your piece, avian influenza has become practically impossible to ignore. How worried ...