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When H5N1 first came to the attention of infectious disease professionals 20 years ago, there was concern it could mutate and ...

A second subtype of H5 bird flu, known as D1.1, was detected in dairy cattle and infected one worker in the US state of ...

The flu can also cause a general feeling of fatigue or malaise, Ray says, as well as gastrointestinal issues like diarrhea ...

In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced empty shelves in their grocery stores. The escalating threat of avian ...

Partial CDC data suggest that influenza deaths may have already reached as high as 2% of deaths for the week ending on Feb. 1 ...

Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic swept the world, killing 20 million to 100 million people. By 1957, when Hilleman began worrying about the egg supply ...

and only influenza A has been known to cause pandemics — including the 1918 flu pandemic. Unlike type A, influenza B only infects humans, he explains, “so it changes more slowly and it tends ...

Hilleman, however, needed eggs not for his breakfast, but to make the vaccines that were key to stopping a potential influenza pandemic. Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza ...