Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. In 2024, as zoos were hit hard by H5N1 bird flu, big cats were particularly affected: tigers, lions, a cheetah, and a panther all died after being ...

BUFFALO-NIAGARA, N.Y., April 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - As H5N1 avian influenza continues its spread across species and continents, a vaccine being developed by University of Buffalo (SUNY ...

The test is designed for rapid deployment should the outbreak escalate. H5N1 has been garnering significant attention, as the spread of infection continues to rise among poultry and livestock ...

John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration will remove industry representatives from ...

H5N1, the current strain of bird flu circulating around the U.S., is a moving target that not only kills wild birds and poultry, but has rapidly adapted to sicken other species beyond dairy cattle ...

As well as eying off a clinical trial for this novel gum, the researchers are now looking at tackling avian influenza, the H5N1 virus. “Controlling transmission of viruses continues to be major ...

Five years after Covid-19 killed millions of people and devastated economies, a growing sense of urgency hung over the talks at a time when new health threats ranging from H5N1 bird flu to measles ...

with new threats lurking -- including H5N1 bird flu, measles, mpox and Ebola. The final stretch of the talks also took place under the shadow of cuts to US foreign aid spending and threatened ...

with new threats lurking — including H5N1 bird flu, measles, mpox and Ebola. The final stretch of the talks also took place under the shadow of cuts to U.S. foreign aid spending and threatened ...