A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New ...

For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...

A new study has raised alarm among virologists, revealing that one of the body’s key defenses against infection - a fever - may not work against certain strains of bird flu. One of the body’s key ...