Bird flu viruses can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever as one of the body's ways of stopping viruses in ...

A seasonal flu virus suddenly mutated in the summer. It appears to evade some of our immunity, has kick-started a flu season ...

Some viruses mutate more rapidly than others. Learn more about why that is and what that means for your health.

California could see an early and especially sharp start to the annual flu season, as a combination of low vaccination rates ...

Rong-Gong Lin II is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide ...

Public health experts say people should still get the vaccine – and as soon as possible – as it will still provide protection ...

The United States may be heading into its second severe flu season in a row, driven by a mutated strain called subclade K ...

Veterinarians in Cyprus have lauded a government decision to allow its stock of human coronavirus medication to be used on cats to fight a local mutation of a feline virus that has killed thousands of ...

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New ...

Norton Healthcare experts said the current flu vaccine isn't an exact match for the mutation, but they're urging people to ...

AN INFLUENZA virus similar to swine flu has mutated and strains are now emerging globally that are resistant to the frontline drug treatment Tamiflu. Similar resistance has also been seen in patients ...

In another milestone on the long, expensive and sometimes discouraging road to wiping out polio, global health officials have announced that two of the three strains of wild polio virus have ...