The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

Moderna said on Monday its influenza vaccine was found to be 26.6% more effective than an approved annual flu shot from GSK ...

Moderna's flu vaccine candidate, mRNA-1010, shows 26.6% efficacy in a Phase 3 trial for adults 50+. Read more here.

New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

The letter, signed by 79 medical societies, expresses concern over recent federal immunization review policies and asks that ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

COVID-19 cases never fell to zero in India since the disease was detected, Naveen Kumar, Director, National Institute of Virology, Pune, said, adding, “We have now scaled-up surveillance and genome ...

Influenza viruses mutate in a special way called reassortment, which occurs when multiple strains infect the same cell and trade pieces of their genome with one another, potentially creating new ...

Influenza has a segmented genome, which increases the chance that its genetic material, or RNA, is shuffled into new forms through recombination when two different influenza viruses infect the ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At the same time, recent CDC data shows that seasonal influenza A is rising ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, also known as H5N1 bird flu, is a viral infection that has seen a large spike in infections across the U.S., in wild birds, poultry, cattle and humans.