Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has warned that a 'leaky vaccine' could increate the ...

F or most of the past century, the United States’ track record on infectious disease has been quite good. Thanks to major investments in public health, diseases such as smallpox ...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says it may take time for falling wholesale egg prices to benefit U.S. consumers.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says it may take time for falling wholesale egg prices to benefit U.S. consumers.

The U.S. will struggle to maintain an effective response to a future H5N1 epidemic unless schools are made as "pandemic proof ...

Health secretary RFK, Jr. has repeatedly suggested that farmers should let bird flu spread through flocks. Experts explain ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus is mutating to evade immune defenses in mammals following prior infection or vaccination.

Bird flu “is adapting to mammals, and it continues to show new tricks,” Nelson tells The Verge. The virus is spreading widely ...

The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first time since 2017.

A small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1, the bird flu strain driving the current U.S. outbreak, after eating raw food or drinking unpasteurized milk. Though there are no ...

In today’s Health Alert, the spread of H5N1 bird flu has reached an unprecedented level, according to the United Nations Food ...