What's the Difference Between Flu A and Flu B? Experts Discuss the Symptoms

The flu can also cause a general feeling of fatigue or malaise, Ray says, as well as gastrointestinal issues like diarrhea ...

Flu A Vs. Flu B—Key Differences Infectious Disease Doctors Want You to Know

Having the flu is a lousy experience, regardless of the type you have. While news of a rough flu season ahead (spurred by subclade K) continues to make headlines, there are two main types of flu, A ...
Health and Me on MSN

A Fast-Spreading Flu Variant Is Circulating In The US: Symptoms To Watch For

A fast-spreading mutated strain of influenza H3N2, known as subclade K, is now circulating. Early reports from global health ...
Scientific American

First Human Dies of Rare H5N5 Bird Flu Strain. Here’s What You Need to Know

H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in U.S. wildlife since late 2021 but has caused only one human fatality. Now a different ...

Trio Of Illnesses, New Flu Mutation Concerns Experts: What To Know

Adding to COVID-19 and RSV concerns, a mutation of Influenza A H3N2 spreading in North America doesn’t respond to this year’s ...
ZME Science on MSN

Avian Flu Wipes Out Nearly Half of Breeding Elephant Seals at World’s Largest Colony

The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, ...
Medical Xpress

Influenza A-infected volunteers display different patterns of expelling viruses into environment

Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork. It was a name that stuck, and to this day is known as influenza. Medieval ...
Scientific American

Enceladus’s Alien Ocean, Ancient Fungi and the Flavor of Influenza

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed. First, ...
Frontiers

CD147 mediates the adsorption of influenza A virus on the cell surface through direct interaction with HA

The adsorption of avian influenza virus (AIV) initiates the viral lifecycle, determining host tropism and pathogenicity. In addition to the classical AIV receptor, auxiliary receptors also play ...
The Telegraph

Series of infections follows after an intense bout of influenza A

DEAR DR. ROACH: I contracted influenza A nine weeks ago, which was confirmed by a nasal swab. I had my regular flu vaccine in mid-November, but it was no match for this virulent strain. I was sicker ...
IFLScience

First Giant Virus To Be Found In Finland Is A Whopper, Twice The Size Of Influenza

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...
AgriLife Today

One year later: Highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy cattle

The detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, subtype H5N1 in dairy cattle was confirmed in March 2024 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA. This finding was the first of its kind ...