Robert Redfield, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned that it is "not a question ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This ...

The general public are showing “ignorance and apathy” towards the threat of bird flu, say the authors of a new editorial, ...

Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts to prevent and detect bird flu infections among farmworkers, ...

The most common way to detect bird flu involves swabbing potentially contaminated sites and sequencing the DNA that’s been ...

H5N1 bird flu has infected over 1,009 cattle across 17 U.S. states, affected poultry in New York and New Mexico, and caused one human death in Louisiana.

This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at panzootic—animal ...

But preparations have begun. The CDC has said it continues to track the bird flu, but Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the ...