It affected many healthy young adults and children, with a high burden on healthcare systems globally, though its overall mortality rate was drastically lower than the Spanish Flu. Avian influenza ...

Perhaps the most notable is the so-called “Spanish flu” of 1918–1919, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates “an avian-like H1N1 virus” killed 50 million ...

David J. Cennimo, an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rutgers New ...

Could the threat of another worldwide pandemic be on the way? On Jan. 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first American, a man in Louisiana, had died from severe avian ...

The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate ...

In July, the bird flu spread from dairies in Colorado to poultry farms. To contain it, two poultry operations employed about 650 temporary workers — Spanish-speaking immigrants as young as 15 ...

Two animals at a Chicago zoo died from bird flu, and the first human bird flu death was reported in this southern state.