Dissecting flu's deadly weaponry
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Scientists hope the understanding of past flu pandemics can help us better prepare for future crises.
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Authorities warn that millions of people could be killed. Humans, rather than animals, would be the carriers of the new flu. The high density of poultry and humans in several Asian countries has been blamed
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Scientists who synthesized two genes  from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic  said Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so  deadly.
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Aug 20, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A step in the progression of avian influenza considered almost inevitable by experts in view of the widespread and continuing Asian outbreaks this yearâits occurrence in pigsâhas been taken, if a Chinese scientist&#39;s
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An experiment to reconstruct the deadly 1918  flu virus gives new insight into how the infection took hold.
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Advanced X-ray technology has helped scientists spot a new target that drug designers might use to attack the dreaded bird flu virus.
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A laboratory in China says it has discovered a deadly strain of the bird flu in pigs, raising concern among scientists that the virus may be closer to changing into a form that is more easily transmittable to humans.
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New analysis of how American cities responded to the killer Spanish flu of 1918 suggests that closing schools, banning large gatherings, staggering work hours and quarantining households of the ill may have saved tens of thousands of lives.
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Could some people have a little immunity to the H5N1 bird flu virus? One study in mice published on Monday suggests it is, in theory, possible.
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By making tiny changes to a modern flu virus, US scientists were able to recreate the flu virus that caused the 1918 influenza epidemic that killed millions of people around the world.
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Scientific sleuths have a new suspect for a mysterious affliction that has killed off honeybees by the billions: a virus previously unknown in the United States.
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A small Japanese study suggests that influenza viruses are becoming resistant to Tamiflu, a widely used drug that eases the flu&#39;s symptoms, and that the resistance may be more common than thought.
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The deadly H5N1 form of the bird flu virus is rapidly mutating and the world must be on guard even though the disease has yet to be transmitted between humans, experts told a meeting in Beijing, Chinese media said on Tuesday.
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By recreating the influenza virus that killed up to 50 million people in 1918-19, researchers may have identified the gene that turned it into one of the most lethal in human history.
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Scientists say they have found how the body controls the machinery it uses to fight infections.
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The avian influenza virus known as H5N1 has killed millions of poultry in east Asia. Now researchers fear it may be tougher and more dangerous to humans than previously suspected.
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The world is closer to the next flu pandemic that may kill up to 7 million people, a World Health Organization expert warns. A worldwide outbreak is closer than ever because of bird flu, says Klaus Stohr, coordinator of WHO&#39;s global influenza program.