Age shift during the 1918 pandemic was extreme, in which the majority of deaths occurred among individuals under 45 years of age, sparing people above this age. During the 2009 influenza pandemic ...

This isn’t just an animal health crisis — it’s a risk to public health. When animals consume foods containing live virus, ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

Not since the H1N1 pandemic of 2009 has the country been hit this hard by the influenza virus. This has been the worst flu season in a generation for the U.S. Not since the H1N1 pandemic of 2009 has ...

Almost 450 people have died of flu this year in North Carolina, the highest death toll since tracking began in 2008.

which was the highest rate since the 2009 swine flu pandemic. Asked what may have caused that spike in cases in January and February, a CDC spokesperson told Healio that influenza activity often ...

Earlier run-ins with flu can pay off During the last influenza pandemic — the 2009 swine flu outbreak — people under 65 accounted for most of the hospitalizations and deaths. This was a ...