Kennedy, a vicious opponent of vaccines and public health more broadly, is rapidly fulfilling his campaign promise to “give ...

Now that he has been confirmed as secretary of health and human services, Kennedy must recognize his performance is a matter of life-and-death on a population scale.

The government has funded science and then largely left well enough alone. Scientific agencies have been staffed by ...

Egg farms have invested millions into biosecurity, but their efforts have not been enough to contain an outbreak that began ...

Many experts fear that Kennedy will appoint vaccine skeptics to key roles in federal agencies and hinder infectious disease ...

The World Health Organization declares when an outbreak of an infectious disease becomes a global pandemic, like COVID-19. It has not declared H5N1 a pandemic. While bird flu hasn’t been ...

Public health officials are looking into reports of a small potential uptick in neurologic complications of influenza in ...

Bird flu has now spread to humans in a dozen states after public health officials confirmed an Ohio man had contracted the ...

A CDC study has found H5N1 bird flu antibodies in veterinarians who had no symptoms and no knowledge they had been working ...

Three veterinarians who work with cows have tested positive for prior infections of H5 bird flu, according to a study ...

UC Davis researchers have found that acidification can kill H5N1 in waste milk, providing dairy farmers an affordable, ...

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