Jeb Teichman’s phone rang just before midnight. As a pediatrician, he has received many late-night emergency calls. This time, the call was about his 29-year-old son. Brent Teichmanhad been suffering ...

Since being sworn in as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr has repeatedly tried to undermine public trust in vaccines. His agency recently took steps to slow down the ...

A recent Views & Comments article published in Engineering highlights advances in repurposing influenza viruses as flexible ...

If you’ve come down with the flu, you’re probably wondering how long you’ll have to live with the unpleasant symptoms, like a fever, achiness, fatigue, stuffy nose, and everything else that comes with ...

Flu season is starting to tick up in the U.S. And, looking at clues from other countries, we may be in for a rough winter. But not all influenza is the same. And there are some notable differences ...

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness. Influenza has to latch onto a receptor on the surface of a human cell so it can ...

The number of people getting sick with influenza B has gone up for three weeks straight, now making up about a third of flu cases nationwide.

A new flu variant is causing a surge in cases, with 32 states reporting "high" or "very high" activity levels. The Indiana Department of Health has reported Indiana to be at a "very high" level. The ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed a commercial poultry farm in Abbotsford has tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus. It marks the first case of ...

The first ever avian influenza vaccine recently started trials in the US. This marks a milestone in the prevention of bird flu infections in humans.