The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating whether the U.S. stockpile of bird flu vaccines is still well ...

XEC is on track to become the new dominant COVID-19 strain this winter. Yale and New Haven experts weigh in on why you should ...

With avian influenza transferring to cattle, where it's commonly know as influenza A, the question becomes, are swine safe?

As XEC, the latest COVID variant takes hold, we are watching viral evolution play out on a time scale short enough to follow, ...

U.S. health officials have run into obstacles in their efforts to determine whether a Missouri person infected with H5N1 bird flu passed the virus on to others, causing a delay that will likely ...

A bird flu virus that infected a person in Missouri who didn’t have any known animal exposures had two mutations not seen in previous human cases. So far, there is little reason to believe these ...

Immunocompromised patients are particularly likely to see the evolution of these mutants, but the risk to the general public remains unclear.

Federal scientists are closely studying H5N1 genetic sequences from California dairy workers in search of any dangerous mutations that may make the virus, called avian flu or bird flu, more ...

There are some rapid tests you might be able to take past the expiration date on the box. Here’s what to know.

The drug works by disrupting the virus's genome, causing it to develop random mutations as it replicates, weakening the virus to prevent replication, thereby enabling clearance of infection.

As of October 5, the overall viral activity level in wastewater across the country has been demoted from "moderate" to "low," although "very high" levels are still being detected in two states. A ...

The dominant strain of the COVID-19 virus in Arizona right now is a variant called KP.3.1.1, which is part of the FLiRT group ...