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

As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided.

The ongoing bird flu outbreak has led to wild bird deaths, slaughtered livestock, and hazardous conditions for dairy industry ...

Bird flu. With that diagnosis in mind, one of Russo’s colleagues tried to get some bovine samples tested for H5N1, but the ...

For turkey farmer Erica Sawatzke, Thanksgiving was going terribly. It was 2023, and while others were eating their turkey ...

Are we ready for a bird flu pandemic? USA TODAY Health Reporter Adrianna Rodriguez joins The Excerpt to share her reporting and tell us what she’s hearing from health officials. Hit play on the player ...

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...

The pandemic served as a boot camp for Rhode Island public health officials and infectious diseases doctors, preparing them for future health crises ...

Thankfully, in 2025, the days of lockdowns and quarantines now seem a distant memory for many—even though the physical, ...

The Biden and Trump administrations have put billions into bird flu monitoring and prevention. But where is that money going?

Bird flu is sweeping through egg-laying chickens in the United States at an unprecedented rate. So far in 2025, 30 million ...

WE must act now to stop a bird flu pandemic and “save lives,” experts warn. The H5N1 strain has already spread from birds to ...