In outbreak developments, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife ...

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...

The pandemic served as a boot camp for Rhode Island public health officials and infectious diseases doctors, preparing them for future health crises ...

Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently identified in four dairy cow herds, nearly one year ...

WE must act now to stop a bird flu pandemic and “save lives,” experts warn. The H5N1 strain has already spread from birds to ...

SACRAMENTO, the United States -- Scientists are sounding the alarm about a concerning genetic mutation of the H5N1 bird flu ...

So to your point about H5N1, with the mortality being so high, it's possible that the traditional presentation was the sickest that presented, and that we are starting to see a different population.

HHS is re-evaluating a nearly $600 million contract with Moderna to develop and test vaccines against flu viruses that could ...