How does bird flu spread? Can people get bird flu? Bird flu can infect birds as well as mammals, including pigs, cattle and ...

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While a pandemic is not inevitable, the spread of the bird flu virus, also known as H5N1, has surpassed worrisome milestones ...

Three dairy veterinarians, including one who worked only in states with no known bird flu outbreaks in cows, had recent, ...

Most of Trump’s health picks are uninterested in using most of the tools that can limit the spread of infectious disease.

While bird flu’s risk to the general public remains low, there are many “barriers to success” that make containing the virus — and staving off a possible pandemic — somewhat tricky for ...

For the first time since 1952, publication of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was halted. It returned on Feb.

"Scientists who have been studying influenza viruses have been warning for over 20 years that H5N1 avian influenza viruses could cause a pandemic," Friedrich said. "Influenza viruses have obviously ...

H5N1 bird flu poses a potential threat, potentially leading to an airborne pandemic. Increased cases in the US have led to vaccine development efforts. Experts warn that ignoring this issue ...

But that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even probable. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), of which the CDC is part, believes the current bird ...