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 ...

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

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

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

A true story involving a hamburger, 1970s parenting and spectacular aim from one of the 10 billion seagulls on perennial ...

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.

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

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

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