Swine flu, caused by the H1N1 virus, primarily spreads through respiratory droplets expelled when an infected person coughs ...

Feb. 22, 2024 — First large-scale analysis of optimal timing for flu shots finds October is the best month for children to get vaccinated against influenza. Study of 800,000 pediatrician visits ...

Swine flu, known as pandemic influenza or swine influenza, is an influenza virus that makes individuals ill. It is a ...

Even if current vaccines are effective against HN51, existing supplies would barely be enough to cover healthcare workers ...

A flurry of reports about the genetics of the bird flu currently infecting U.S. cattle are offering insight into how the virus has and continues to spread. Since it first emerged in late 2020, this ...

The flu is an infection in your nose, throat, and lungs that is caused by a virus. There are different kinds of flu, like the one that people get every winter, which you can get a flu shot to prevent.

Ferrets are seen as an important model for analyzing how viruses could affect humans as they can be infected by human flu viruses.

The distribution of flu virus receptors in cow mammary glands helps explain the high H5N1 viral loads in milk, but it also ...

H5N1 has been found in commercially available milk – but gaps in testing of cattle and humans are hampering effort to stop ...

The CDC today launched a new dashboard that could reveal whether bird flu is spreading in your area. The dashboard draws on samples of wastewater that test positive for A-type flu viruses ...

Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle.