A medical reality is complicating federal preparations for the next pandemic: Flu spreads in ways that make it extremely unlikely the U.S. could avoid being hit. Even shutting U.S. borders against ...

President Bush said he will take a $7.1-billion national avian flu strategy to Congress that includes stockpiling antiviral drugs like Tamiflu and Relenza and passing liability protection for vaccine ...

Four states—Texas, Nebraska, Kansas and New Mexico — have signed up to participate in the Voluntary H5N1 Dairy Herd Status Pilot Program that was announced May 30, and a dozen others are in talks to ...

UN officials have issued a plan to help poor countries prepare for a potential bird flu pandemic that would leave them worst affected.