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All four flu pandemics — in 1918, 1957 and 1968 and the swine flu pandemic of 2009 — were caused by Type A viruses. Influenza B viruses, however, only circulate in humans. They are divided ...

When H5N1 first came to the attention of infectious disease professionals 20 years ago, there was concern it could mutate and ...

The intense debate over President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F.

In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced empty shelves in their grocery stores. The escalating threat of avian ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

Partial CDC data suggest that influenza deaths may have already reached as high as 2% of deaths for the week ending on Feb. 1 ...

Outpatient health care visits for flu-like illnesses are at their highest levels in 15 years, according to data updated ...

Residents of southern Minnesota will have a chance to express their views on a proposed new set of ethical guidelines for allocating scarce medical resources during a major influenza pandemic, at ...

Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic swept the world, killing 20 million to 100 million people. By 1957, when Hilleman began worrying about the egg supply ...

Hilleman, however, needed eggs not for his breakfast, but to make the vaccines that were key to stopping a potential influenza pandemic. Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza ...