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When a foreign power floods your media with false health alerts designed to create panic, isn’t that as threatening as a ...

Imagine waking up to the news that a deadly new strain of flu has emerged in your city. Health officials are downplaying it, ...

Imagine waking up to the news that a deadly new strain of flu has emerged in your city. Health officials are downplaying it, but social media is ...

Around 5,000 years ago, humans discovered that they could domesticate animals. So, as it were, they adopted animals like cows ...

The poultry sector has developed strong systems around animal movements. Chicks are sourced from high-health hatcheries, and ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

Farm workers facing possible arrest would likely resist getting tested for bird flu should there be a resurgence this fall, ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its emergency response for bird flu as the outbreak that sickened ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

The U.S. has seen more measles cases in 2025 than in any year since the virus was declared "eliminated" in 2000.