Health authorities need to be concerned about bird flu, but the risk to the public is low. You’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter on how to navigate medical and public health challenges ...

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 ...

Two commercial egg-laying flocks, each comprising over one million birds, are being culled due to an outbreak of avian influenza. One flock tested positive on January 21 in Newton, Missouri, while the ...

WHO funds are spent on a range of global health projects—programs to eradicate polio, rapidly respond to health emergencies, improve access to vaccines and medicines, develop pandemic prevention ...

Just outside New York City’s Central Park Zoo, not far from where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once stealthily deposited a dead bear cub, stands a bronze statue to another animal: Balto, the husky that, 100 ...

Senators should not be fooled by Kennedy’s posturing and should demand straight answers from him, because our children’s ...

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is distancing himself from his anti-vaccine work as he seeks to become the leader of the nation’s top ...

Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsize effect on Americans’ protection against ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is going dark, along with other federal agencies within the umbrella of the ...

The Civil Eats Food Policy Tracker is your daily, go-to source for actions taken by the President, federal agencies, and ...

The Trump administration has ordered federal health agencies to halt external communications — including health advisories ...