Recent history makes clear that microbiological disasters can strike anytime. But a longer history should remind us of the ...

Flu expert says bird flu virus may be spread by infected feces blowing in the wind. Dr. Michael Osterholm is a medical ...

H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the ...

Japan faces a surge in bird flu cases, implementing measures to control the spread and protect poultry industry and public ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...

Seasonal influenza vaccines triggered protective immune responses against the H5N1 avian influenza virus primarily in younger ...

David J. Cennimo, an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rutgers New ...

The Free Press interviewed Dr. Kimberly Dodd, the dean of the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine, about efforts to tame the ...

Horses carry their own form of flu virus, and researchers say that if the two viruses combine, the consequences are unknown ...

The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...

For the avian flu virus to be transmitted from one human to another ... through contact with other human influenza viruses ...