Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can infect each other with this strain of the virus.

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.

The earlier than normal arrival of this year's flu season has doctors urging Australians to roll up their sleeves to get ...

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, ...

But it can happen, as it did in 2009, when an H1N1 influenza A virus with a novel mix of genes jumped from pigs into people, ...

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

At least 1,504 people died from complications of the flu by the 13th week of this year, including 22 children.

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 ...