In recent months, bird flu has started raising red flags among scientists and public health officials. Apoorva Mandavilli, a New York Times reporter who covers infectious diseases, explains why we ...

A bird-flu pandemic is far from inevitable. But health experts are closely monitoring an outbreak that could quickly escalate ...

State officials suspect the avian flu has killed dozens of wild birds in Boston, Amherst, and Plymouth, and farmers are ...

As a growing number of cats have gotten sick or died after consuming raw pet food or raw milk contaminated with the H5N1 virus, health officials have advised pet food companies to take extra ...

Ever since the novel coronavirus reached the United States five years ago, it has unleashed punishing winter waves of illness ...

Outbreaks in commercial poultry have recently been reported in a tri-state area that makes up the Delmarva Peninsula, and ...

The 2 positive cases are among 31 samples tested, and officials are considering use of antivirals and experimental vaccine.

Following his speech, Trump signed a slew of executive orders—declaring a national emergency at the southern border and an end to birthright citizenship, as well as ending use of the CBP1 app, among ...

Bird flu (H5N1) is widely spreading in flocks of wild birds, causing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows around the country.

Five years after COVID-19, experts warn of a new pandemic threat as a rapidly mutating H5N1 bird flu strain emerges. Urgent ...

Bird flu has been detected in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia for the first time since the current outbreak began in 2022, officials say. A Louisiana resident has died after being ...