The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio. Our activities focus on protecting against threats to public health, preventing and reducing diseases and injury, and ...

The Covid “pandemic’ was nothing compared to the greatest killer of humanity, The Black Death of the 14th century, and the next in line, the Spanish Influenza, also called the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 ...

University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a right-handed, antiparallel double-helix inside influenza ...

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way ...

A new PEARLS article in PLoS Pathogens reviews the rapid evolution and pandemic potential of emerging influenza A viruses, ...

Blue Ridge Wildlife Center recently admitted an adult female red fox from the Town of Hamilton, in Loudoun County, that tested positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ... help minimize the risk ...

Late-stage trial data suggest that a new COVID-flu vaccine offers good protection against both infections, but experts expect ...

This outbreak is a timely reminder that the last mile in the global eradication of polio remains elusive. As we emerge from a ...

The World Health Ogranization says wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999, but the deadly disease has been detected ...

In the United States, flu season typically lasts from October to May. The flu virus affects people of all ages each year, and symptoms include coughing, runny nose, fever, chills, body aches ...

Professor Patrick Reading. Influenza A and B viruses are responsible for most seasonal flu outbreaks, but each year sees a different mix of subtypes, making the virus difficult to predict and control.