Antibodies taken from alpacas are to be used in a new pandemic flu drug, in a £33 million project led by AstraZenica.

Five years on, we are less prepared for another outbreak, so it is valuable to consider what we learned, what mistakes were ...

To date, at least 296 people in Washington state have died of the flu since the fall. But it’s not too late to get the shot ...

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human ...

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

This influenza season has been particularly severe in the United States, with CDC data showing a rate of hospitalization related to flu that is higher than any other season in the past 14 years.

Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. A new study traces how the disease spread over the last ...

The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War was coming to ...

The 114 commercial outbreaks in South Dakota have led to the death or intentional killing of more than 6 million turkeys, ...

Weissman was jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Katalin Karikó for discoveries which made COVID-19 ...

Public officials and the media blamed high egg prices on bird flu outbreaks and said containing the outbreak in supply chains ...