Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck farm in California.

San Francisco confirmed that a child in the city became the first case of H5N1. A panel of biotech leaders discussed what ...

The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across ...

Five years after COVID-19, experts warn of a new pandemic threat as a rapidly mutating H5N1 bird flu strain emerges. Urgent ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli covered the Covid-19 and mpox outbreaks, and has tracked the spread of H5N1 since 2003. When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed ...

While drugmakers are hard at work on the shots, they’re not yet ready to blunt the impact of a potential pandemic.

A new study based on German long-COVID patients shows 68% experience the same symptoms in year 2 as in year 1 of the chronic ...

Since 2020 when the coronavirus outbreak in China’s Wuhan caused the Covid-19 pandemic, the gain-of-function research has ...

Under orders from the Trump admin, agencies like the CDC are pausing some public health messaging as H5N1 surges ...