The warning from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization came on March 17, the same day the a new U.S. outbreak of ...

The bird flu is about much more than egg prices, and it’s an open question whether industry or policy can slow the spread.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of ...

Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...

The 114 commercial outbreaks in South Dakota have led to the death or intentional killing of more than 6 million turkeys, ...

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

The infection was detected in a single sheep in Yorkshire on Monday and, while bird flu does not spread easily to people, the ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the “potential to become a pandemic”, according to a director at the UK Health Security ...

Richard Pebody said while the virus is ‘not new’ and the risk to the public remains low, its features have changed in recent ...

Richard Peabody, director of epidemic and emerging infections at the UK Health Security Agency, has warned that bird flu has ...

As avian influenza is found in a sheep in Yorkshire, the close contact humans have with domesticated animals is an extra ...