Computer simulations of how Influenza A moves through human mucous found it is ideally configured to slide through the sticky ...

Additional experiments in cultures of human cells that line the lung and immune cells showed ... Experiments showed that flu ...

Bird flu viruses and human flu viruses are trying to get into cells by rattling the handles of different doors, which limits their ability to meet in the same cell. This is where pigs come in ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection -- among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

The detection of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) in a pig on an Oregon farm has again raised concerns specifically among ...

A Canadian teenager is currently in critical condition after contracting a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu, a British ...

As of now, 17 states have reported H5N1 bird flu cases in humans, but there is still no evidence for transmission between people and the infections have been mild. Could that change?

The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be ...

in cow's udders), a different shape is used on cells in the human airway. Bird flu viruses and human flu viruses are trying to get into cells by rattling the handles of different doors, which limits ...

Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the ... for example—the virus can sometimes get into human cells, even though it’s not built to do exactly that, Sutton says.

The Fraser Valley teen does not have any connection to poultry farms, where a highly pathogenic version of avian flu has ...

A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu. British Columbia health officials ...