As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked ...

By Dani Blum Lauren Caggiano had felt sick for days by the time she tested positive for the flu in an emergency room ... Mr. Walsh spent nearly 20 years as a detective for the Boston Police ...

The general public are showing “ignorance and apathy” towards the threat of bird flu, say the authors of a new editorial, based on a survey they conducted of US residents. It found that many ...

Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year ...

Kennedy Jr. over his bird flu response, which they called “dangerous and reckless.” In a Tuesday letter addressed to Kennedy, the Democrats said they were “troubled to hear” he considers ...

As spring migration brings thousands of birds back to Northern Ontario, concerns over avian influenza are on the rise. Lawrence Martin, director of the lands and resources department at ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. "Holy cow," says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the Univer ...