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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2:25 ‘No need to panic:’ Close to 100 birds found dead in Brampton from suspected avian flu Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in ...

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) H5N1 influenza is evolving to evade human immune defenses, reducing the efficacy of existing vaccines. Computational modeling shows a decline in antibody binding ...

A controversial proposal from U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to let bird flu naturally spread through poultry farms is raising alarms among scientists ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected ...

H5N1 isn’t the only version of bird flu that we should be worried about. Animal health officials reported Monday that a highly pathogenic strain of H7N9 bird flu was recently detected on a ...