As world health leaders face deadly outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola, a major pandemic preparedness report finds we are less ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

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This is all you need to know about Washington’s poisonous partisanship: Not a single Senate Democratic senator showed up for a major Senate oversight hearing on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The coronavirus isn't the first time a virus shut down the world. This is everything you need to know about the 1918 Flu ...

Decades after H2N2 vanished from humans, declining immunity and persistent animal reservoirs are renewing calls for stockpile-ready vaccines against a historically pandemic-capable flu subtype. Review ...

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April 21 (Reuters) - Moderna (MRNA.O), opens new tab said on Tuesday it had started a late-stage study of its experimental bird flu vaccine in the U.S. and the UK, marking the first time a pandemic ...

We're keeping an eye on new influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viral variants. Here's what we know about those viruses—and your immune system's ability to fight back. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Bird flu has flown off the national news radar, with only scattered, local reports of dead birds in parks and poultry farms. Is it simply no longer a concern, or have cuts to federal science funding ...