As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different ...

Genetic analysis of H5N1 bird flu virus that infected a Canadian teenager shows 'worrisome' mutations, new studies reveal.

The virus, which was first isolated in 2001, is just like any other respiratory virus that spreads through air, entering the ...

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More should be done to control the spread of bird flu among animals to avoid more cases in humans, the World Organisation for ...

For over a decade, scientists have studied the microbiome, the environment of microorganisms that live on and in the body, ...

Ebola is generally known to spread through contact with bodily fluids from individuals who have the infection.

In both of those cases, virus samples showed that once it was in the body, it mutated in ways that would allow it to stick to cells in the mucous membrane lining the upper respiratory tract.

At Jefferson of New Jersey — which has three emergency locations in Cherry Hill, Turnersville and Stratford — there has been ...

Norovirus is the leading cause of foodborne illness in the United States, responsible for 58 percent of such infections ...

Matthew Langsworth says he breathed in fungal spores for a decade, alleging that his landlord painted over black mold instead ...