Antiviral drugs can be used for influenza treatment and for post-exposure ... of influenza depends on the prevalence of resistant virus. Amantadates can be used in countries with a low prevalence.

Medical officials confirmed that one person who has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Clackamas County.

Health officials have announced six more H5N1 bird flu infections in humans: five in California and the first known case in ...

Computer simulations of how influenza A moves through human mucus found it is ideally configured to slide through the sticky stuff on its way to infecting cells ...

The approach to treating the flu, regardless of type, revolves around relieving symptoms and supporting the body’s natural defenses, Dr. Liu said. There are four approved antiviral medications ...

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with suspected bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday.

The primary way to shorten the length of time you get the flu is to take antiviral medications -- drugs specifically designed to help your body fight viral infections,' says Timothy Brewer ...

Understanding how evolution optimised the influenza A virus for this slimy task could help us create new antiviral drugs. If you just dropped an influenza A virus into mucous, natural diffusion ...

"You can have a flu shot that will not impact the respiratory tree; the live vaccine spray might." If you have plans to get FluMist nasal spray, you should not take any antiviral medication for at ...

As avian flu spreads in California dairies, new CDC study finds evidence of prior infection in people who felt healthy.