At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It's a sign that ...

A 3-year-old girl from the western state of Durango is Mexico’s first confirmed human case of bird flu, health officials said Friday. Type A H5N1 influenza has been ...

In February 2022, a new variant of the highly contagious virus was detected in U.S. commercial and backyard poultry, and it ...

Baltimore Orioles general manager Mike Elias revealed that shortstop Gunnar Henderson will start the season on the injured list with a strained intercostal muscle. Henderson has been out since ...

The NFL finally found a change to the kickoff formation that it likes. But the league apparently doesn't like it enough. Four weeks ago today, Competition Committee chairman Rich McKay said ...

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In an interview with Fox News this week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposed a novel fix to the nation’s bird flu epidemic: Let the virus spread. “They should consider ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the US. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...

Avian influenza is “evolving in ways we haven’t seen before,” says Martha Nelson, a computational biologist and staff scientist researching pathogen evolution at the National Institutes of ...

Top U.S. health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently mused about a novel way to contain bird flu, which is to let it “run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the ...

More U.S. adults say they’ve gotten the updated flu shot than the updated COVID-19 shot (42% vs. 27%) since the two vaccines became available in the United States last summer, according to a new Pew ...

Under Biden, Parker was head of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, and CNN reports that Parker, who sits on the National Security Council, is already attending bird flu meetings.