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

Influenza cases are up 192% over the 5-year average, and the state’s 50 flu deaths so far are the most since 2017-18, when ...

It is the third straight season, and fifth in the past eight, that the county has reported a record-high number of flu cases.

Tim Henderson, Wisconsin Examiner March 18, 2025 As vaccine skepticism gains a greater foothold in the Trump administration ...

Dr. Ashish K. Jha is dean of Brown University School of Public Health and a contributing Globe Opinion writer.

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five ...

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 ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof explains the various ways the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID will hurt the U.S.

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.

Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons hasn’t seen a flu season this bad at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital since the pre-COVID-19 era. “It has been staggering to see the surge in inpatient numbers this season, knowing ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...