Health Minute” brings original health care and health policy reporting from the KFF Health News newsroom to the airwaves each week.

Studies suggest that people who had seasonal flus or vaccinations have low antibody levels against H5N1 bird flu.

Preexisting immunity to the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus provided near-complete protection against severe H5N1 disease and ...

In experiments conducted in a biosafety level 3 facility, the researchers studied ferrets that had antibodies to seasonal flu ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...

The fatality rate for H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans has historically been high, with more than half of people dying. Why, then, is the current H5N1 bird flu outbreak—which has ...