Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection -- among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

So far there’s been only one reported human case of bird flu in Texas this year in April and 46 total in the U.S., according ...

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

After killing millions of birds worldwide, the H5N1 avian flu is creeping like a black fog of death through U.S. dairy farms.

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

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 ...

A case of H5 bird flu is believed to be detected in a human in Canada for the first time ... the first time the virus had ...

Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ...