The H5N1 bird flu outbreak in the U.S. has so far been shockingly mild. Researchers have some theories as to why.

New research reveals how cigarette smoke disrupts microbiota, leading to worse outcomes in influenza A virus infections.

Explainer - Can we still eat NZ eggs? And are our native birds safe? As 40,000 birds are to be killed on a North Otago farm, ...

The Department of Correctional Services has reported that the initial group of inmates at St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre, Tower Street A ...

All poultry exports are on hold until New Zealand is free of the highly pathogenic bird flu detected at a Moeraki egg farm, Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard says. The Ministry for Primary ...

Human cases in the US are on the rise and the virus is turning up in cows and dairy products. Luckily, we have some vaccines ...

Nine cases of swine flu H1N1 have been recorded by the health department of central Binh Dinh Province over the past month, ...

Bird flu is increasing the cost of what’s on people’s table this Thanksgiving, as deaths of millions of poultry in recent ...

New research and discussions with dairy farmers in the Central Valley suggests H5N1 bird flu is more widespread among people ...

Most people born before 1968 have antibodies against flu viruses similar to the H5N1 strain circulating today, which might ...

In the 2009 swine flu pandemic, multiple reassortment events in pigs and birds led to the novel H1N1 virus strain, which led ...

A study of 700 people who tested positive for influenza suggests that their risk of infecting household contacts was 18.8% ...