Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

Osofsky is a wildlife veterinarian and the Jay Hyman professor of wildlife health and health policy at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The Trump administration recently canceled ...

A university is looking for volunteers to try out a new vaccine to protect humans against a potential bird flu pandemic. The ...

Nancy Cox, who for decades was a global leader in influenza research, has died. Cox headed the influenza team at the Centers ...

Share on Pinterest HHS has cut funding to a Moderna program that develops vaccines against influenza-like viruses that could lead to pandemics, such as bird flu. Johanna Moya/Getty Images The ...

On a special episode (first released on February 27, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: As bird flu, also known as H5N1, continues to spread across the country, experts are concerned about the potential ...

Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic swept the world, killing 20 million to 100 million people. By 1957, when Hilleman began worrying about the egg supply, scientists ...

The jab targets the H5N1 flu strain which has caused devastating infections in bird populations worldwide, but has yet to spread between humans.

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. The 1918 influenza pandemic is one of the deadliest in ...