The owner of Long Island’s last remaining duck farm, forced to cull its entire flock of nearly 100,000 Pekin ducks last month in response to an outbreak of avian flu, says he is “truly scared” ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu picking up mutations that might lead to human-to-human spread, that "train has already left the station," warns 1 infectious disease expert.

Bird flu is infecting more people than we think. We need to stop it now before a new pandemic begins Right after President ...

Over the past 60 years, the influenza virus has continued to drift and shift. In 1968, a shift once again caused a pandemic.

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

or bird flu, according to a statement from zoo officials on Wednesday. It also announced that its bird house would be closed for an undetermined period of time to protect the other animals.

But such efforts need to be ramped up in the Trump administration to prevent bird flu from spreading, said David Stiefel ... The government has two bird flu vaccine candidates in limited ...

Bird flu's unprecedented spread among livestock and other mammals in the U.S. has raised fears that another pandemic could be in store. The incoming Trump administration will have to prepare for ...

according to David Boucher, a senior official with the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response. In the event of a bird flu pandemic, Nuzzo says she expects Americans will "demand" ...