After a summer hiatus, bird flu cases are once again ticking up in the United States. We are flying blind in the face of a potentially catastrophic pandemic threat.

In a bid to get ahead of the next global flu pandemic, scientists have turned to a surprising tool: bird poop. In remote parts of the Indian Ocean and Oceania — regions often neglected during ...

Influenza viruses are shifty entities. They accumulate small genetic changes on a regular basis, necessitating yearly updates to the flu vaccines because the prior year’s strain may not look much ...

An increasing number of poultry farms in Germany are being affected by bird flu. Since the beginning of September, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute has recorded around 31 outbreaks of the virus in ...

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we ...