As bird flu continues to threaten animals and public health, the U.S. government has stepped up its response. Experts says it ...

Smithfield Foods' CEO Shane Smith says he hopes that everything the company has done to make working in its plants more ...

The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

Scientists understand that pandemic can occur when a virus adapts to spread between humans. There is no evidence to suggest ...

First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment ...

Bird Flu Pandemic Risk Rising, Warn Scientists on Growing Threat; Guillain-Barré Syndrome Case. Scroll down to know what is ...

A new strain of bird flu, H5N9, has been detected for the first time in the United States, raising concerns about how it ...

Trump told TIME in April he would close the White House's pandemic preparedness office. It's losing most of its staff during ...

Bird flu poses an increasing pandemic threat as it becomes more adaptive, jumping to humans, pets and zoo animals, Europe’s ...

Five years on from the start of the covid pandemic, are we ready for a potential avian influenza outbreak? This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech ...

While bird flu’s risk to the general public remains low, there are many “barriers to success” that make containing the virus — and staving off a possible pandemic — somewhat tricky for ...