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

Three years into the epidemic that has claimed the lives of nearly 170 million farmed birds and caused 70 known human ...

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 ...

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

A cat sits on a rodent bait station in Silver Spring in August 2019. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) You’re reading The ...