Bird flu, Covid-19, and influenza are all respiratory infections spreading through respiratory droplets. While influenza generally causes milder symptoms, Covid-19 and bird flu can lead to more severe illnesses.

Influenza viruses are shifty entities. They accumulate small genetic changes on a regular basis, necessitating yearly updates to the flu vaccines because the prior year’s strain may not look much like the following year’s. But they can also make sudden ...

In the UK and other northern hemisphere countries, flu season tends to run from mid-November to mid-February. In the southern hemisphere, it runs from May to July.

Questions abound about how to best inoculate the world against swine flu as health officials plan for a campaign that could dwarf any previous flu vaccination effort. Among the issues to be resolved are the amount of vaccine likely to be available,

Dr. Richard Besser traveled to China to report on the bird flu outbreak. April 16, 2013— -- HONG KONG -- A new strain of bird flu has been reported in China, and it has sickened 63 people and killed 14. I spoke with my former colleagues at the Centers ...

Medically reviewed by Alicen Nelson, MD, MPH You may have heard the term H3N2 in the news or read about it online. But chances are you don't know much about what it is and how it's different from other types of flu.

Bird flu control zones have been brought in around Lanark after a severe outbreak at a farm. On Friday, the chief veterinary officer for Scotland concluded that the highly pathogenic avian influenza had been confirmed at Whitelees Poultry Farm in Cleghorn.