High-ranking federal officials have suggested that bird flu virus should be left to "rip" through poultry farms across the U.S. — but experts warn that this hands-off approach could hasten the ...

Aaron Specht, assistant professor in the Purdue University School of Health Sciences, has investigated bird flu cases in critically endangered California condors since 2023, soon after 21 condors died ...

A mother and son in Australia narrowly escaped an encounter with two hungry cassowaries – one of the only bird species on the planet with a track record of killing humans, according to animal ...

More by Rachel Feltman This article was originally published with the title “Creating Bird Flu Vaccines for Humans at a Biosecure Laboratory” in Digital Issues Vol. 2 No. 1 (August 2025) ...

Scientists have tagged birds for more than 100 years. That preservation program might be defunded.

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found.

How Bird Flu Went from an Isolated Avian Illness to a Human Pandemic Threat (Part 1) ...

Dr. Rohwer is the curator of birds and mammals at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. Most birds go to great lengths to hide their nests. So when I find one, invariably so carefully ...

Bird flu is spreading on farms and infecting people. If the current response to the virus is a trial run in pandemic preparedness, we've failed it.

Human metapneumovirus (hMPV), a respiratory pathogen identified in 2001, is a substantial cause of community-acquired respiratory infections across all age groups. This Review explores the impact of ...