While covering Covid, science writer Carl Zimmer learned how little we know about air and how it affects disease transmission ...

Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may be a risk ...

There was a checklist to follow: the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 224-page Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Response Plan, known as the Red Book. For 15 years, the Red Book has laid out how ...

Older adults who were exposed to seasonal flu viruses that circulated prior to 1968 are more likely to have some protection against H5N1, and children would benefit more from H5N1 vaccines.