Only people like Rolfs still concern themselves with the most serious outbreak of modern times, the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, so called because ... telescopes and microscopes and night-vision goggles ...

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

The flu is on the rise in New Jersey, and with the New Jersey Department of Health noting a spike in reported influenza cases in February, you should know the symptoms, how to protect yourself ...

So far this season, the vaccine's protection against flu hospitalization was at least 63% for children and at least 41% for adults. These estimates of effectiveness against hospitalization ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

A rise in seasonal flu and viral illness has been observed in Delhi over the past few weeks. The seasonal transition from winter to summer is one of the possible causes. This transition can also ...

Avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has now been detected in wild birds in 30 counties across Indiana and is suspected in 32 more, according to an update provided Monday by the Indiana ...

In another development, researchers reported that exposure to human seasonal flu may confer some immunity to H5N1 bird flu. A new strain of a highly pathogenic bird flu known as H7N9 has surfaced ...

The office, called OPPR, once had a staff of about 20 people and was orchestrating the country’s response to bird flu and other threats until January 20, including hosting regular interagency ...

Ibitoye is a visiting fellow at the Brown University Pandemic Center. Nuzzo is director of the Pandemic Center and professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health.