Two commercial egg-laying flocks, each comprising over one million birds, are being culled due to an outbreak of avian influenza. One flock tested positive on January 21 in Newton, Missouri, while the ...

Just outside New York City’s Central Park Zoo, not far from where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once stealthily deposited a dead bear cub, stands a bronze statue to another animal: Balto, the husky that, 100 ...

On January 20, his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the World ...

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is distancing himself from his anti-vaccine work as he seeks to become the leader of the nation’s top ...

Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsize effect on Americans’ protection against ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is going dark, along with other federal agencies within the umbrella of the ...

The Trump administration has ordered federal health agencies to halt external communications — including health advisories ...

H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the ...