STAT recently spoke to Erica Pan, California’s state epidemiologist, about what public health officials are doing to monitor ...

As the virus makes the jump from birds to cows and other mammals, what’s stopping it from jumping to all of us? In the last few years, a couple dozen people ... we’re in a new era of bird flu.

The United States has ramped up influenza surveillance amid an ongoing outbreak of the bird flu virus H5N1 ... spurring a ...

While most human infections in the current outbreak have been mild and self-limiting, each new host gives the virus a chance to get better at infecting people. “To be clear, we have no evidence ...

Federal officials plan to double the stockpile of emergency bird flu vaccines as they identify more people infected with the ...

The bird flu may be entering a dangerous new phase. The risk that any given person will be sickened or die remains low, but the risk of this virus mutating into the next human pandemic is high enough ...

As more farm workers get sick with avian influenza, the US federal government is putting $72 million toward strengthening its ...

“We have to avoid the trap of thinking this is going to be Covid all over ... people they come into close contact with and children have been particularly affected. Clade 1b is the new branch ...