Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next ...

ProPublica shared the new CDC statement about personal choice and risk with Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

This cooperative agreement is part of a nationwide effort to enhance pandemic preparedness and response in light of increasing activity associated with avian influenza A/H5N1, DPHSS said.

Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. A new study traces how the disease spread over the last ...

The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War was coming to ...

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

The 114 commercial outbreaks in South Dakota have led to the death or intentional killing of more than 6 million turkeys, ...

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human pandemic, was seven months, and Canada came in last, a new study has found.

H5N1 is already driving economic impacts. In the U.S., egg prices have spiked to record highs. The Trump administration has a strategy to deal with both the virus and high prices. That $1 billion plan ...

A historic case of bird flu has been identified in a sheep in northern England, marking the first such instance globally.