Just five years after the coronavirus pandemic struck, another animal-borne disease is mutating and spreading across borders ...

Canadian farmers—and Canadians in general—have been lucky, thanks in part to a supply management system for eggs, poultry, ...

State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work such as inspecting restaurants, monitoring ...

Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

After an outbreak at a B.C. farm, Canada’s food inspection agency said nearly 400 surviving ostriches would be killed ...