Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with infected animals or their bodily fluids, but the new ...

BIRD flu has been detected in an English farm, it’s been announced. A case of the H5N1 bird flu was found in poultry in West ...

Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different ...

Growing up in rural Indiana, I had more animal friends than human ones. I raised ducks and geese, and enjoyed my time ...

The Trump administration's cancellation of $766 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against potential pandemic flu ...

While the Covid-19 pandemic is firmly in the past for many Americans, US households continue to bear the costs of ...

In anticipation of the next big one, the U.S. government began bolstering the nation’s pandemic flu defenses during the ...

The current fear is that bird flu, H5N1, will become the next big pandemic. Only the mRNA platform is nimble enough to ...

Noting that the zoo typically welcomes around 2,000 visitors -- mostly schoolchildren and wildlife enthusiasts -- daily, ...

Health officials in Louisiana said Monday that an individual has died from the H5N1 bird flu. The death is the first reported among humans in the United States related to the virus. The patient ...