Viruses work by taking control of our cells and carefully reprogramming them into machines to make more viruses. Because of ...

Reports this week of a teen in British Columbia who tested positive for H5 avian influenza has renewed attention on the virus ...

The City of El Paso’s Department of Public Health is partnering up with the El Paso Fire Department to host a free drive-thru ...

A teenager has been left in critical condition after contracting the first presumptive human case of avian influenza in ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection -- among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection—among them, raising ...

With migratory waterfowl back for the cold seasons, Oregon is the first state to report new spike in avian flu detections ...

Influenza viruses (specifically influenza A viruses, the group to which H5N1 belongs) are unusually good at crossing between different host species. They still only manage to create a new human ...

The first presumed human case of avian influenza (H5N1, or bird flu) has been reported in Canada. An infectious disease ...

In its first, Canada has detected a presumptive human H5 bird flu case in British Columbia. Health authorities confirmed that ...