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

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 ...

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

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

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

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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 ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the early days of Covid-19, when infectious disease experts were talking about a ...

Furthermore, a COVID-19 test was available from the World Health Organization as early as January 2020. Dr. Jha then went on to note that tests and vaccines for H5N1 currently exist. However ...

Richard Conniff is the author of “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” Lawrence O. Gostin is a law professor at Georgetown University and director of the WHO Collaborating Center for ...