The Latest Breaking News from Influenza

It has been rampant in the past year

The decline in highly pathogenic avian influenza cases across North America in recent weeks has led to a loosening of restrictions on bringing hunter-harvested birds from Canada into the U.S.

Avian influenza, known as bird flu, can also affect humans and mammals as well as birds

The 1918 influenza pandemic resulted in the loss of over 3% of the world’s population – at least 50 million people. But it wasn’t the flu virus that caused the majority of these deaths.

Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna announced Monday that it will open an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in the Australian city of Melbourne, a first for the southern hemisphere. The project will be based at one of Australia's largest universities, Monash, and will produce 100 million vaccine doses a year for Covid-19,…

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Today’s hyper-transmissible strain of the COVID-19 virus has sent cases soaring across the country. But rising deaths — the grim marker of earlier dangerous surges — haven’t kept pace, and the average risk of dying from an infection is dropping to levels almost as low as…

RSPB warns of risk to UK wild bird population this winter from 1 October release of captive-bred birds

Thailand will downgrade Covid-19 from a “dangerous” communicable disease to one that “needs monitoring” starting from October, as the country’s virus situation has started to stabilise, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

The number of influenza notifications continues to sit above the five-year average, but cases peaked in early June and have dropped away at a fast rate.