A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including ...

"This 'quad-demic' is sort of this really tweetable term for our normal winter viruses: flu covid and RSV; and then a little bit of a wild card this year, we're seeing some higher numbers than usual ...

The H5N9 strain of avian influenza is much more rare than the H5N1 which has been responsible for most of the reported human ...

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 very quickly led to the development of the first generation of live-attenuated vaccines. The first inactivated influenza vaccine was ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a ...

The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, Reuters reported, ...

What is H5N9 and how is it different from H5N1? Scientists classify bird flu viruses by which kind of two key proteins are inside of them: the hemagglutinin, like H5 or H3, and th ...

The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for encouragement and support for this work. NIH Awards (R37DA025576; R01MH085259) also support SK ...

Kate Colby, MPH, is a public health expert with extensive experience in infectious disease epidemiology. Marley Hall is a writer and fact-checker for Health.com specializing in medical and health ...

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