May 21, 2024 — Currently available flu medications only target the virus after it has already established an infection, but what if a drug could prevent infection in the first place? Now ...

You feel a cold coming on, or maybe it’s already upon you: the telltale cough, sore throat and stuffy head. You swing by the drugstore, where a shelf full of over-the-counter products containing ...

Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs. They worried about them in 2005, and in 2009, and they're worrying now. That's because millions of ...

Farmworkers face some of the most intense exposures to the bird flu virus, but advocates say many of them would lack resources to fall back on if they became ill. So far, only two people in the ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes The bird flu virus sweeping across dairy farms in multiple states has acquired dozens of new mutations, including some that may make it more adept at ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, sometimes called bird flu, has been confirmed in alpacas for the first time, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services ...

Bird flu outbreaks have continued across the U.S. as officials work to keep the spread at bay. The virus has been detected in alpacas for the first time. The CDC has documented two cases of human ...

Bird flu is what’s known as a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. The “highly pathogenic” part refers to birds, which the virus is pretty adept at killing. In virology speak ...

She may be a Met Gala mainstay, but Rihanna unfortunately had to sit this year's event out — here's what we know Hedy Phillips is the Style Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

New DNA evidence pointing to William C. Kernan Jr (circa 1977 and before his death in 2010) has help solve the cold case murder of Maria Loraine Honzell (inset) (Colorado Springs Police Department ...

A bald eagle. The Everglades’ beloved white Ibis. More than 4,670 animals in Florida have been killed since the bird flu outbreak began in 2022, either because they were infected with the virus ...