A branch of the H5N1 bird flu family tree that hadn't previously been seen in cattle has now been detected in dairy cows.

Going out to breakfast with the family? Well, if you plan on going to Waffle House, you’re going to have to pay a little ...

While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

A new variant of the H5N1 bird flu — the same one that led to the death of a Louisiana man — has for first the first time ...

Bird flu has decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds. The risk to humans is currently low, but that could easily ...

Waterfowl birds and their predators are especially at risk of contracting H5N1. Massachusetts has not yet reported a human ...

While the virus hasn’t made a sustained leap into humans, vaccines and treatments are being developed ahead of an outbreak.

A Massachusetts biopharma giant is at the center of preparations already underway if bird flu mutates and begins to find ...

The US Department of HHS is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu.

The number of bird flu cases in Central Massachusetts is relatively low, compared to a swath of the state that runs from ...

Avian influenza (Bird flu) has infected not only poultry flocks ... The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly ordered its staff to cease all collaboration with the World Health ...