In 1918, an influenza virus jumped from birds to humans and killed an estimated 50 million to 100 million people in a world ...

It’s also difficult to know how virulent the disease would be, though some experts suspect it could cause illness more severe ...

Caused possibly by the subtype H2N2, the “Russian flu” or the “Asiatic ... 50 million people between 1918 and 1920. Many more ...

Since the strain's emergence in 1996, it has led to the deaths of billions of poultry birds, killed millions of birds in the ...

Pigs are capable of harboring both human flu and bird flu, allowing the viruses to mix and match parts of their genetic ...

John Yang: Four years after the start of the pandemic, hospitalizations for COVID are at an all time low, but there are new variants. And now bird flu is in the headlines. It's been found in at ...

We effectively flew blind straight through chapters one and two of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, genomic analyses tell us that bird flu had been circulating in dairy cows for at least four months ...

Flu Vaccines Were Effective in 2022-2023 Flu Season, Studies Find Feb. 19, 2024 — The prospect of the worrisome triple threat of COVID, RSV and flu was assuaged last year by the effectiveness of ...

You should be keeping an eye on the “bird flu”—and on the Republicans who want to slice and dice the CDC budget.

When the price recently jumped to $5 a dozen, it signaled another outbreak of the bird flu. The bird-flu (highly ... that might turn out even worse than COVID-19. For this to occur, the virus ...

Disease experts anticipate a small uptick in Covid cases this summer, as a new variant spreads. The KP.2 variant represents 28% of Covid infections in the U.S., up from just 6% in mid-April ...

The Immunisation Coalition is calling on parents of children born during the COVID pandemic to get them vaccinated against the flu. What's next? Free vaccinations are available for certain groups ...