The number of H5 bird flu cases among people in the U.S. is now at 70, with the most cases being in California, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among the cases ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of swine flu that can infect humans and has the potential to cause a future pandemic, according to a study released on Monday, though scientists have ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections are trending downward, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...

One year ago, a human infection of bird flu was reported in Texas. One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker, just weeks after the ...

Health experts are looking very closely at the spread of swine flu among people in Spain, Britain and Japan, a WHO official said yesterday as Japan reported a one-day explosion of over 70 new cases, ...

Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first ...

New research reveals that the bird flu viruses may be capable of replicating at temperatures higher than an average fever, a ...

The United States may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year ...

A new analysis suggests H1N1 deaths 15 times higher than lab tests counted. June 25, 2012— -- The swine flu virus, H1N1, may have killed 15 times the number of people counted by the World Health ...

The Catalan government has reported the detection of African swine fever in two wild boars found dead in Bellaterra, ...