If we avert our eyes from the bird flu threat because our systems have grown inattentive, underfunded and unprepared, we risk ...

Simulation finds quarantining is most effective in controlling human spread as long as it is done when number of infected people is as low as two ...

For years, scientists have warned that bird flu - better known as H5N1 - could one day make the dangerous leap from birds to humans and trigger a global health crisis. Avian flu - a type of influenza ...

Bird flu could be the next pandemic It’s one of the worst nightmares facing epidemiologists: that the virus could escape ...

Bird flu, particularly H5N1, is spreading through animals, raising pandemic concerns. While human infections are rare and ...

Scientists identify key tipping point when bird flu could cause a pandemic in humans - Simulation finds quarantining is most ...

Bird flu has always worried pandemic planners, but a new twist is raising the stakes: scientists are now tracking variants ...

Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention ...

Avian influenza is devastating poultry operations, spreading in dairy cattle and infecting farm workers. Why isn’t the United ...

Jonna Mazet arrived at UC Davis as an undergraduate curious about veterinary medicine in 1986, and is retiring four decades ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus—commonly known as bird flu—has been causing outbreaks in dairy cows in the United States since ...