HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy farmworker is capable of airborne transmission, amping up concerns about its potential to spark a new pandemic, according to a research letter ...

New CDC research suggests the H5N1 avian influenza virus that infected a Michigan dairy farmworker can be transmitted through the air. The revelation, the study's authors wrote, suggests "an ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

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

Now the more than century-old farm – the last duck farm remaining in a New York region once synonymous with the culinary ...

Dr Nadeem Shabir For now, the general public’s risk remains low. The CDC maintains that these are isolated cases of animal-to ...

South Africa is grappling with a resurgence of the H5N1 bird flu, following outbreaks on poultry farms in Tswaing and Mkhondo ...

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.