The winter flu season features two types of influenza. Here's what you need to know about them and how they differ.

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The advance, described Jan. 20 in Cell, brings scientists a step closer to developing much-needed medicines.Currently, there are no vaccines to prevent or mitigate infection with the Nipah virus ...

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The Trump administration is preparing an executive order that would halt federal funding, at least temporarily, for a risky and controversial kind of research into viruses that makes the pathogens ...

One “confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak” in Tanzania since 2023, the president told a press briefing broadcast from the capital Dodoma on Monday. Marburg causes a highly ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

In 1940, a second strain of influenza virus was isolated; this was named influenza B and the first strain was named influenza A. During the Second World War, the first inactivated vaccine was ...

Influenza type B viruses are not classified by subtype and do not cause pandemics. Different strains of the flu virus mutate over time and replace the older strains. This is why it's important to ...

U.S. dairy cattle tested positive for a strain of bird flu that previously had not been seen in cows, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday, ramping up concerns about the persistent ...