Pandemic Pause Reveals Flu’s Hidden Highways Around the World
The reduction in global travel during COVID-19 offered researchers new insights into influenza spread and mutation. After ...
Bird Flu Outbreak: Do Human Cases Mean Future Lockdowns?
With 46 U.S. cases and alarming signs of the virus crossing species, experts warn of unpredictable risks if human-to-human ...
Key influenza-severity risk factor found hiding in plain sight on our antibodies
Viruses are the fastest-evolving biological entity on Earth. This fact explains why we need flu shots every year: Seasonal ...
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New Bird Flu Spread Patterns Are Revealed in Wastewater
Wastewater in several Californian cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, recently tested positive for bird flu. But ...
Did COVID Lockdowns Drive a Flu Strain to Extinction?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, global influenza cases dropped dramatically due to lockdowns and travel restrictions. However, ...
Can bird flu trigger another pandemic and cause more lockdowns? Here's what experts have to say on the possibility
A teenager in British Columbia is critically ill with Canada's first case of the H5N1 bird flu strain. While the virus has ...
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How did the COVID pandemic influence the seasonal flu?
The seasonal flu places a significant burden on healthcare systems globally, leading to over five million hospitalizations ...
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What to know about bird flu, poultry and dairy farms
People have been hearing a lot about H5N1 bird flu — or highly pathogenic avian influenza — since a B.C. teen became the ...
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Don't wait for a holiday surge. Now is a good time to get your flu and COVID-19 vaccines
Health officials say it's important to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the holidays when respiratory bugs tend to ...
H5N1 Bird Flu Is Infecting More People Than We Know
New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...
Hawaii health officials detect bird flu in wastewater for first time
State health officials said Tuesday night that they have detected H5 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, in wastewater test samples on Oahu. A nationwide outbreak of avian influenza has ...