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

We need to take bird flu seriously. Preventing the virus from adapting to develop human-to-human transmission is the biggest priority to prevent a human epidemic. If the bird flu did turn into a ...

Finland has been in the grip of an extensive influenza epidemic, according to figures from public health authority THL. A total of 2,296 flu patients reported to health centres around the country in ...

Seasonal flu cases have hit a 15-year high this year—filling hospitals, shutting down schools, and leading to an estimated 19,000 flu-related deaths so far in the United States. These deaths ...

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...

A shopper picks up eggs at a grocery store in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. With bird flu killing millions of egg-laying chickens, prices surged more than 15% in January from a month ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants’ immunoprotein interactions – developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...

The current bird flu epidemic should concern us all. Climate change-related temperature changes, food shortages, and rising seas are changing bird migration patterns, forcing bird populations into ...

Pediatrician Dr. Mario Yanakiev has warned that a second flu wave is expected to follow the peak of the first. This wave does not necessarily involve the flu virus but is instead caused by a ...