Robert Redfield, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned that it is "not a question ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Passengers had to evacuate via the emergency slides Monday after a Delta passenger jet caught fire on the tarmac at Orlando ...

Any evidence of a bird virus jumping readily into mammals is a worry, as it could indicate that mutations that allow for ...

Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook ...

This was also the first year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that deaths from flu surpassed deaths from COVID.

A nanoparticle-based vaccine candidate for H5N1 avian influenza achieved 100% protection in preclinical trials, offering hope ...

Bird flu has long been a concern for scientists, but recent developments have raised alarms about its potential to cause a global pandemic. The discovery in 2024 that the H5N1 virus had jumped from ...