If taking charge of your health is among your New Year’s resolutions, you might consider getting your 2024–25 seasonal ...

Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...

As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different ...

Influenza A, COVID-19 and norovirus (stomach flu) are on the rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate amid ongoing outbreak.

The Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a self-limiting isolated virus, which is always in the atmosphere,” say paediatricians.

More Americans are getting infected with seasonal influenza and seeking care, a regular occurrence this time of year.

It’s been increasing at a pretty steady pace now for the past several weeks. So yeah, we are certainly in flu season now.” ...

New research led by La Jolla Institute for Immunology scientists on the H5N1 virus, or “bird flu,” suggests that many people ...

That could change if not enough people get their seasonal flu shot ... if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can exchange genetic ...

More concerning than these mutations, however, is the virus infecting humans at the same time the seasonal flu is ramping up, Rasmussen said. “If you get infected with H5N1 and at the same time ...