In an interview with Fox News this week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposed a novel fix to the nation’s bird flu epidemic: Let the virus spread. “They should consider ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the US. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...

Bird flu continues to spread in the U.S., infecting thousands of wild birds and poultry while posing an increasing threat to humans. Since the outbreak among U.S. livestock was first detected in ...

Bird flu “is adapting to mammals, and it continues to show new tricks,” Nelson tells The Verge. The virus is spreading widely in domestic and wild animals, while exact transmission routes ...

(Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images) Bird flu is at a dangerous point in the United States: Nearly 167 million birds have been impacted by the H5N1 strain since 2022, and 70 people have been ...

NL Health Services is warning the public of an outbreak of norovirus—or stomach flu—in the province. A number of schools have seen an increase in reported cases of the illness which results in nausea, ...

More U.S. adults say they’ve gotten the updated flu shot than the updated COVID-19 shot (42% vs. 27%) since the two vaccines became available in the United States last summer, according to a new Pew ...

Top U.S. health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently mused about a novel way to contain bird flu, which is to let it “run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the ...

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have been cut from the federal agency in charge of pandemic response Kevin Dietsch/Getty; iStockphoto/Getty Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the U.S ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thinks that the bird flu should be allowed to spread unchecked to identify birds that could be immune. Kennedy said in a recent Fox New ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

As bird flu continues to rampage in dairy farms and poultry facilities around the country, the office tasked with coordinating the federal government's response to pandemic threats, including bird ...