While covering Covid, science writer Carl Zimmer learned how little we know about air and how it affects disease transmission ...
Three years into the epidemic that has claimed the lives of nearly 170 million farmed birds and caused 70 known human ...
There was a checklist to follow: the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 224-page Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Response Plan, known as the Red Book. For 15 years, the Red Book has laid out ...
Emergency response planners in the federal government have long hoped to use the same approach if the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus ever triggers a pandemic. But news that the Trump administration ...
In prior bird flu outbreaks, there’ve been several documented cases of feline-to-feline spread, but ingestion seems to be the ...