The vets said they never experienced any flu-like symptoms. Two vets said they had no known exposures to animals with known or suspected bird flu, and one said they didn’t practice in a state ...

Although a flu shot doesn’t guarantee one won’t catch the flu, the vaccine still counts as one of the most effective ...

None said they had suffered red eyes or other symptoms associated with bird flu. Testing found three of the vets, or 2%, had evidence of antibodies to H5N1 infection. All three worked with dairy ...

A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), recently remade by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

H1N1 flu is also known as swine flu.It's called swine flu because in the past, the people who caught it had direct contact with pigs. That changed several years ago, when a new virus emerged that ...

Is bird flu subsiding in Tulare County? What to know as virus reshapes farming practices. Since April, the CDC says nearly 70 people have been infected with bird flu and one person died.

From recent experiments with ferrets, which get and transmit the virus similarly to the way people do, Le Sage suspects that people who’ve had flu before—that’s most people over the age of 5 ...

As the bird flu situation develops in the U.S., scientists told Newsweek the virus could become a pandemic--depending on what happens next.. Right now, California is the epicenter of the outbreak ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar to that of 1918 could easily erupt, killing millions again.

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...

The CDC offers rare exceptions for who shouldn't get one, including people who've had a severe allergic reaction to a flu vaccine in the past, those who have a severe allergy to an ingredient in ...