While rare, bird flu has infected over 140 cats since 2022, according to government data. Here's how to protect your pets.

Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

“In our results, a substantial proportion of infections was prevented when transmissibility was similar to that encountered in typical influenza seasons, vaccine effectiveness was within the ranges ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

Just five years after the coronavirus pandemic struck, another animal-borne disease is mutating and spreading across borders ...

It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the far-reaching social implications of emerging infectious diseases, bringing ...

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

Cambodia's Ministry of Health recently confirmed the country's twelfth human case of H5N1 avian influenza so far this year.

In just 3 years, the Influenza Vaccines Research and Development (R&D) Roadmap Initiative has demonstrated important ...