The case fatality risk for patients hospitalized with avian influenza A H7N9 virus may be lower than previously estimated, but the virus may reappear when the weather cools, according to data from ...

Total number of new bird flu cases across the country rose to 47. April 13, 2013— -- Officials in Beijing confirmed today that a 7-year-old girl is infected with H7N9 avian influenza, widening ...

A new strain of a highly pathogenic bird flu known as H7N9 has surfaced at a poultry farm in Mississippi where chickens are raised for breeding. The finding of the new strain came as researchers ...

A foreign journalist covering China has little choice but to get familiar with the basic habits of respiratory viruses. The country’s southern swath has been the historic incubator of many of the ...

More than 50 travelers just back in the United States from China who had flu-like symptoms have been tested for the H7N9 bird flu virus, federal health officials say. So far, none has tested positive.

Multi-center Phase I clinical study will evaluate the safety and tolerability of a monovalent strain of avian influenza A (H7N9) vaccine delivered intradermally by Vaxxas’ high-density microarray ...

Flu season may be coming to an end in some parts of the world, but a new influenza virus harbored by birds may be starting its global assault. On Tuesday, China reported four more cases of infection ...

There are many different bird flu viruses. Besides the subtype H5N1, which has been spreading in the European wild bird population for several years and poses a threat to local poultry farms, there is ...

“[The] study reveals the increased H9N2 prevalence in poultry farms in China, due to the emergence of a more infectious and antigenically distinct H9N2 genotype,” Tommy Tsan-Yuk Lam of the University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chickens gather in a hen house at the MCM Poultry facility in Nuevo, Calif., in 2017. (Los Angeles Times) A new strain of a highly ...

A new strain of a highly pathogenic bird flu known as H7N9 has surfaced at a poultry farm in Mississippi where chickens are raised for breeding. The finding of the new strain came as researchers ...