15:15 19 October 2009  | 15 comments

Bird flu may be a sexually transmitted infection, at least in ducks – and the less well-endowed the male, the greater the chance of spreading the virus

12:58 12 August 2009  | 3 comments

Influenza virus can go from gut to brain, leaving animals with symptoms similar to those in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

UPFRONT:  11:11 05 March 2009  | 26 comments

Live H5N1 bird flu virus sent out accidentally from an Austrian lab last year was injected into ferrets and mixed with a human strain before anyone realised

14:51 24 February 2009  | 11 comments

The flu virus is a master at guiding the immune system's attacks to its strongest defences – now a way to avoid its decoys could lead to a long-lasting treatment for many kinds of flu

UPFRONT:  10:00 20 December 2008  | 15 comments

Indonesia hold firm on its refusal to share its H5N1 virus samples until there are guarantees over a share of the potential benefits

IN BRIEF:  10:02 30 November 2008  | 5 comments

One common form of cold virus turns out to have started in birds – and the discovery is helping to show how animal viruses spread to people

14:55 25 September 2008  | 3 comments

Inhaling, rather than injecting, vaccines provides added protection against influenza, and could make stocks go further in a pandemic

THIS WEEK:  10:32 22 September 2008  | 3 comments

H5N1 is not the only threat - another form of bird flu that infects humans is common in poultry and, with a few mutations, could become a killer too

UPFRONT:  10:53 24 May 2008

Indonesia will release genetic information from its recent H5N1 samples, but is still limiting export of viruses for vaccine development

UPFRONT:  10:20 06 May 2008  | 5 comments

A speedy new way to make antibodies to flu could provide a treatment within weeks of the onset of a pandemic