WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture said during her confirmation hearing Thursday that she has “a lot to learn” about highly pathogenic avian ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention communication delay could hinder coordinating responses at the state and local levels.

H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread amid commercial and backyard poultry, and additional cases have been reported in domestic cats ...

Trump’s pardon came after Sutton and Zabavsky were unanimously found guilty by a federal grand jury in 2022 of conspiracy to obstruct and obstruction of justice over the incident, as well as ...

The consumer price index found that egg prices have increased 36.8 percent from this time last year, and experts believe the increase in price is the result of avian influenza, which is rapidly ...

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

On his first day in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the WHO. Experts and ...

In the run up to the November elections, then-Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance famously blamed Democrat ...

H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the ...

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial ...

Trump administration orders federal health agencies to halt external communications, raising concerns among officials. Read more from The Washington Post.

When a pathogen — any organism that causes a disease — jumps species, scientists get nervous because its genetic makeup can ...