Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

Researchers accidentally find that H3N2 and H1N1 flu strains use different strategies to enter cells, revealing new paths to ...

A new study has identified an influenza virus circulating in pigs that shows multiple traits associated with pandemic potential. Known as H1N2, the virus belongs to a lineage of flu viruses that ...

Swine flu is a human respiratory infection arising from an influenza strain in pigsiStock Swine flu is a human respiratory infection arising from an influenza strain in pigs. Every year this deadly ...

Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by University of Nebraska–Lincoln virologist Eric Weaver and his laboratory team. "This research ...

Scientists investigating how influenza viruses replicate within cells "accidentally" discovered that different flu viruses ...

Bombay's Municipal Corporation's Health Department (BMC) have analysed the H1N1 cases in Mumbai only to find out that the time between onset of swine-flu symptoms and beginning of anti-viral drug ...

An updated safety report was released by Dr. Bruce Gellin, Director of the National Vaccine Program Office. The report indicates that the government has a "beefed-up" database on safety that shows no ...