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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sharply rising egg prices across the United States blamed on the ongoing H5N1 avian influenza outbreak are mostly being ...

Richard Conniff is the author of “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” Lawrence O. Gostin is a law professor at Georgetown University and director of the WHO Collaborating Center for ...

Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization. Experts say it will be a lose-lose for the ...

Trump’s decision is shortsighted and put the rest of the world is put at greater risk, say public health scholars ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted millions of dollars to Moderna to speed up bird flu vaccine development.