H5N1 avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, has infected more than 100 million birds in the U.S. and almost 500 ...

There are many processes and proteins that help the body fight a flu infection. One of them is known as IFITM3. | ...

If a pig infected with human flu got infected with the H5N1 bird flu, a new virus could emerge with parts of both. That’d be ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection—among them, raising ...

Canadian officials have announced that a teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.

A person has tested positive in British Columbia, Canadian health officials said, though the results must be sent to another ...

Pigs remain at the centre of scientists’ nightmare scenario because commercial swine carry lots of human flu viruses. Their cells share enough features with ours that flu viruses can use some of ...

It suggests that the virus has infected more humans than the 46 farmworkers identified ... a pig at an Oregon farm was ...