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

Scientists are sounding the alarm about a concerning genetic mutation of the H5N1 bird flu virus, recently identified in four ...

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

The ongoing bird flu outbreak has led to wild bird deaths, slaughtered livestock, and hazardous conditions for dairy industry ...

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

Older adults who were exposed to seasonal flu viruses that circulated prior to 1968 are more likely to have some protection ...

How could the virus be everywhere but still, somehow, in the CDC’s estimation, not likely to cause a pandemic? H5N1 is already a panzootic. It spreads easily among birds via their digestive ...

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

Pandemic influenza remains a significant global health threat, as signalled by the circulation and cross-species transmission of avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses from the clade 2.3.4.4b, including ...

Minnesota-based 3M still ships millions of respirators, though health care is not the major market it briefly was.

Five years later, we remain two nations: one that feels justified in minimizing Covid and the other trapped in the memory of ...