Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

"This type of prevention can be very useful in controlling infection outbreaks and containing the bird flu pandemic," said an ...

The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

The finding at a California duck farm is raising alarms among public health experts that bird flu could further mutate into ...

Experts stressed that the new strain did not itself appear to be an immediate human threat. But the rise of a new strain is troubling and points to the risk of a viral phenomenon known as ...

Dozens of newly confirmed cases of avian influenza in wild birds and the first verified U.S. case of a new strain of the ...

A US government memo ordering a halt to communication with global health bodies has concerned scientists as a strain of bird ...

Egypt, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China have reported the highest number of human bird flu deaths. Those numbers come with a few caveats. For one, many of those deaths occurred in places ...

H5N9 is a subtype of bird flu, and a version that appeared in China more than a decade ago was “highly pathogenic ... For now ...

President Trump announced he's pulling the U.S. from the WHO. Now researchers are scrambling to understand what that means for the H5N1 bird flu pandemic.

Bird flu is an airborne respiratory virus. Animal-to-animal transmission of the virus can spread easily, less so animal-to-human contagion ... travels abroad. China’s emergence as a global ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the early days of Covid-19, when infectious disease experts were talking about a ...