Index provides flu risk for each state

Infectious disease can afflict a population in complex ways. Understanding the varying risks is an equally complex challenge.

Influenza's molecular theft caught in action—how the virus steals the cap of host RNA in order to replicate

The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy and noses are running. We feel ill and hope it is not the flu. The influenza virus continues to pose a threat to our health. It triggers seasonal ...

Universal flu vaccine: How scientists are closing in on the virus's 'weak spots'

While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.

A computer simulation is helping to prepare Australia for H5 bird flu

Currently, Australia is the only continent in the world still free from the highly contagious H5 bird flu. But that status ...