A Class IX student in Kollam, Kerala has tested positive for H1N1, with three others showing symptoms. Health officials are ...

During monsoons, influenza is among the most prevalent viral infections, spreading quickly among kids. So, vaccination before rains set in is crucial. Here's why.

“In our results, a substantial proportion of infections was prevented when transmissibility was similar to that encountered in typical influenza seasons, vaccine effectiveness was within the ranges ...

RSV has outstripped severe Covid and flu hospitalisation rates and proved itself more fatal than either of the flu season ...

One key growth factor is the rising prevalence of the disease. The growing demand for rapid diagnostics and molecular testing ...

The Federal Court of Appeal has wrapped up hearing arguments in an ongoing court case involving B.C. farmers and an order to have 400 ostriches culled for avian flu risk.

This is the first time we’ve had access to an influenza genome from the 1918–1920 pandemic in Switzerland. It opens up new insights into the dynamics of how the virus adapt ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...