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 ...

The real name for swine flu is H1N1 flu. It is called swine flu because a virus that causes this flu also causes flu in pigs. You cannot get this flu from eating pork, bacon, sausages, or any ...

Influenza A is further divided into subtypes. You may have heard of H1N1 or H3N2 – those are the two dominant types of ...

Early results from a trial testing a 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine in children look promising, according to the trial sponsor, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part ...

Flu cases are surging this winter—this season is no joke. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The H5N1 strain is the biggest concern right now. It's similar to human flu viruses like H1N1 and H3N2, but it rarely infects ...

We might have better T cell responses against H1N1 than we thought. New pandemic strains of influenza virus typically are more virulent than those that have been circulating longer, presumably ...

ST. PAUL – Three people have died recently from complications due to infection with the H1N1 novel influenza virus, the Minnesota Department of Health announced today. The include a Dakota ...