One of the ways it can spread to healthy poultry farms is by a single infected duck visiting a flock and shedding the virus ...

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...

The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first time since 2017.

Health secretary RFK, Jr. has repeatedly suggested that farmers should let bird flu spread through flocks. Experts explain ...

The National Wastewater Surveillance System’s funding expires at the end of fiscal year 2025, just as bird flu heats up.

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an ...

Nearly 167 million birds have been impacted by the H5N1 strain since 2022, and 70 people have been infected. Now, birds are ...

Dr. Ashish K. Jha is dean of Brown University School of Public Health and a contributing Globe Opinion writer.

Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...