Scientists in Chile developed antibodies that successfully neutralised the deadly Andes hantavirus in lab and animal studies, raising hopes...

Medics are working to evacuate two individuals with hantavirus symptoms from a luxury cruise ship off West Africa after an outbreak claimed...

Bird Flu in U.S. - Tests conducted by the University of Washington confirmed the patient was suffering from H5N5 avian influenza

This is the worst flu season in the United States in nearly a decade. So far, the country has recorded 29 million flu infections, around 37...

Flu cases in US: Seasonal flu cases in the United States have reached their highest level in over a decade with even influenza-related deat...

A decade-old bird flu strain, H5N9, has surfaced in US poultry for the first time, detected in a California duck farm. Experts are concerne...

Bird flu death in US: US has reported its first human death due to bird flu. Bird flu is a viral infection that spreads in birds, cows and ...

As the New Year’s Eve comes pretty close, the respiratory illness activity in the US has gone up and CDC at the same time have issued a war...

The research, spanning 18 months, compared the health outcomes of COVID-19 and influenza patients, showing an increased risk of death, hosp...

Several cardiologists have reiterated that one of the leading symptoms of long-term Covid is the added strain it puts of people's hearts an...

One reason to get more serious about flu is its cost, both economically and in human terms. Annual costs of treating influenza (routinely i...

The US has recorded more than 800,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, estimated in an interview with CNN that the pande...

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), annual flu epidemics are estimated to cause up to half a million deaths globally.

A 43-year-old man died of swine flu early this morning at the city civil hospital here, a senior official said.

US President Barack Obama has said that there were no plans to close the country's border with Mexico despite a growing swine flu outbreak.

An NRI who flew to Hyderabad from Texas, the US state which reported the first swine flu death outside Mexico, was on Wednesday found to ha...