korean officials have confirmed an outbreak of avian influenza in the southern part of the country in the nation's first case of the virus since 2011. the ministry of agriculture food and...
korea is not the only country in asia batt ling an outbreak of animal illness... in vietnam an increasing number of people are falling foul to swine flu... with two high school students the latest...
we start with the latest on the bird flu crisis here in korea... nearly 300-thousand ducks and chickens have been culled so far... all in korea's south western jeollabuk-do province. so far.....
we begin with the latest on a bird flu outbreak here in korea... it's been more than five days now... since the h5n8 strain of avian influenza was discovered on two farms in the southern part...
Flu season is coming, and we've got the latest on what you should do to get ready. In Part 2 of our series on flu, medical editor Dr. Paul Little unravels the hype and gives us just the facts,...

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[ Music ] >> So it is little wonder that the highly contagious H1N1 flu strain has many folks worried about being infected from other people by this new virus, especially those in...
2009 Swine Flu Pandemic. The Swine flu originally came from a strain of H1N1 in pigs in Mexico. It traveled from one person to another. It mainly transferred from hog farm workers and veterinarians....
I'm Allison Aiello and I'm a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology. And I'm Helen Mejer, I'm a second year Ph.D. student in the department of Epidemiology....

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In nineteen eighty-seven health and medical officials are shocked to learn that people are dying from inside the influenza virus known as H5N1. It is a virus known to kill birds but has never before...
Pathogens such as the influenza virus have receptors that enable them to bind to host cell surfaces. Antibodies to these viral receptors prevent the virus from binding to and infecting cells. These...