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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 ...

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

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

It's flu season right now, and the U.S. is in the midst of a wave that's straining hospitals. But not all influenza is the ...

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 ...