Stray feathers litter the ground inside the empty coop at Kakadoodle Farm. A few beige eggshells crunch underfoot. No hens ...

Health secretary RFK, Jr. has repeatedly suggested that farmers should let bird flu spread through flocks. Experts explain ...

Bird flu “is adapting to mammals, and it continues to show new tricks,” Nelson tells The Verge. The virus is spreading widely ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the man in charge of the USA's health policy, has come up with a new plan for tackling the potential threat of bird flu: let it spread like wildfire through farms. Currently, ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

Birds without natural immunity that migrate or roost together in large flocks, such as geese, are most likely to die in large ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

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 ...

As bird flu continues to spread, impacting poultry farms and the price of eggs, the Agriculture Department says it's almost doubling the amount spent to combat it.

The bird flu outbreak is largely due to the close quarters and poor conditions of farmed animals in factory farming ...