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

What’s the tipping point, when we might need to change our daily behavior? Who is coming up with broader solutions? What do ...

COVID-19, scientists are watching another virus warily: H5N1. It’s been circulating widely in the U.S. — and now, wild birds ...

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

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 ...

Health secretary RFK, Jr. has repeatedly suggested that farmers should let bird flu spread through flocks. Experts explain ...

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.

As bird flu continues to rampage in dairy farms and poultry facilities around the country, the office tasked with coordinating the federal government's response to pandemic threats, including bird flu ...

On this week’s episode of “More To The Story,” how public health emergencies and the dismantling of federal agencies are ...

The spread of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza, bringing losses of hundreds of millions of poultry worldwide with increased spillover into mammals, highlights the urgent need for strengthened ...

Mayor Eric Adams and his challengers have their own ideas for how the city could weather a future health crisis.