HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Health recently confirmed the country’s twelfth human case of H5N1 avian influenza so far this year.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has ended its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, citing a drop ...

Despite pleas from pigeon fanciers, the EU isn’t loosening its grip on avian flu rules just yet, keeping racing pigeons ...

From the outset of the Trump administration, bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has flown rather conspicuously — and in fact ...

In a Policy Forum, Erin Sorrell and colleagues – a coalition of virologists, veterinarians, and health security experts – ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

In a bid to get ahead of the next global flu pandemic, scientists have turned to a surprising tool: bird poop. In remote parts of the Indian Ocean and Oceania — regions often neglected during ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

Just five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic, another animal-borne disease is mutating and spreading across borders and species.

How Bird Flu Became a Human Pandemic Threat The first hints that a new strain of avian illness is emerging could be found on this beach on Delaware Bay, where migrating birds flock.