As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different influenza viruses mix. A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was ...

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An aggressive strain of the H3N2 virus is overwhelming emergency medical services in southern Florida. Experts warn that low ...

Although this year’s flu vaccine doesn’t protect as well against the dominant subclade K strain, doctors still say that ...

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New ...