Influenza is affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Japan and rising rapidly among that nation's population of 124.5 million and overwhelming many healthcare providers and drugmakers.

By bno - Tokyo bureau Japan has seen a dramatic spike in flu cases, reaching the highest levels since record-keeping began in ...

Two of the three chicken farms are in the city of Handa and the other is in the city of Tokoname. The quail farm is located ...

Japan in the last week of December experienced the biggest influenza outbreak since comparable data became available 25 years ago, health authorities said Thursday.

In November, around 2,500 chickens were culled after an outbreak of the virus was reported on a farm in Gyoda city’s Saitama prefecture. The environment ministry raised the bird flu alert to its ...

So far in January, as many as 13 bird flu cases have been confirmed at chicken farms across the country, including multiple ...

With confirmation of a new highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) farm outbreak an almost daily occurrence in Japan over the past few weeks, fears are being voiced about a looming egg shortage in ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about why the common cold will be classified as ...

Japan's medical institutions dealing with emergency patients are struggling with the spread of influenza as their beds are often filled to capacity.

The agriculture ministry said the outbreak was confirmed after the farm reported increasing deaths among its chickens ...

It is the 19th bird flu outbreak of the season in Japan, the agriculture ministry said. The latest farm reported increasing deaths of fowl, and test results confirmed Sunday that bird flu was the ...

Cases of flu often rise in the winter in Japan and elsewhere, but some countries have seen large jumps in cases recently including in France and Britain. Australia logged more than 350,000 ...