Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

More than 156 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United States since the outbreak began in January 2022. One person has been killed.

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Over the past 60 years, the influenza virus has continued to drift and shift. In 1968, a shift once again caused a pandemic.

As bird flu spreads in the United States, are there are any risks of the virus from drinking milk or eating eggs? Here's what you need to know, according to experts.

Vaccination rates were, however, only “moderate” – not because Americans saw vaccination as problematic, but because they did not see influenza as a threat. Nearly 40 years had dulled memories of the ...

Tools used to contain previous bird flu outbreaks aren’t working this time, experts say. The virus has sickened at least 67 people in the U.S. and killed one, with egg producers begging for a new ...

The U.S. prioritized vaccinating military personnel over the public in 1957. Here, members of a West German Navy vessel hand ...