There is a tremendous level of global surveillance and scrutiny at the moment concerning novel viruses and our ability to track them as they emerge appear in humans, such as the recent discovery of a ...

BEIJING — A 41-year-old man in Jiangsu province, which is northwest of Shanghai, has contracted possibly the world's first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu, the Chinese government said ...

The death from bird flu of a person in Washington is a reminder that avian flu is circulating widely during flu season, ...

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...

New research reveals that the bird flu viruses may be capable of replicating at temperatures higher than an average fever, a key bodily defense mechanism against severe infection. The international ...