A plan to announce the agency's new risk assessment stressed the need for MMR vaccinations. Last week, it was scrapped.

We cannot predict the finer details of a particular outbreak or a particular storm, but we can often identify when these threats are emerging and prepare accordingly.The viruses that cause avian ...

FAO Deputy Director-General Godfrey Magwenzi described the spread of the disease as unprecedented, “leading to serious ...

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As the world creeps closer to a bird flu pandemic, fears over transmission to humans grow. Could infected raw milk spread the ...

Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment ...

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

This cooperative agreement is part of a nationwide effort to enhance pandemic preparedness and response in light of increasing activity associated with avian influenza A/H5N1, DPHSS said.

If you have sick birds in your BACKYARD flock, please report them to WSDA’s Sick Bird Hotline at 1-800-606-3056. If your farm ...