H5N1 Bird Flu

Health Megan Molteni

Wastewater testing specifically for bird flu virus will scale up nationally in coming weeks

Health Helen Branswell and Megan Molteni

Michigan reports a human case of bird flu, the nation’s second linked to H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows

Health Helen Branswell

When should we start making H5N1 vaccine, and who will make that decision? In short, it’s complicated

Breaking News Helen Branswell

CDC asks states and cities to keep flu surveillance at peak levels because of bird flu threat

Health Helen Branswell

Move over, wastewater. Store-bought milk could be another way to track the bird flu outbreak in cows

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to H5N1 and livestock movements, insulin discontinuation, and more

First Opinion Céline Gounder

H5N1 doesn’t have to be a repeat of Covid-19’s ‘public health versus the economy’

Health Nicholas Florko

My rendezvous with the raw milk black market: quick, easy, and unchecked by the FDA

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang, Lizzy Lawrence, and Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: USDA, FDA turf battles hamper responses to outbreaks like H5N1 bird flu

Health Megan Molteni and Helen Branswell

CDC launching wastewater dashboard to track bird flu virus spread

Health Sarah Owermohle and Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Federal officials will fund farms’ protective measures to contain H5N1 bird flu

Health Sarah Owermohle

Farmers resist push for workers to wear protective gear against bird flu virus

The Readout LOUD Allison DeAngelis and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Everything you need to know about H5N1 bird flu

Health Helen Branswell

Bird flu keeps rewriting the textbooks. It’s why scientists are unsettled by the U.S. dairy cattle outbreak

First Opinion Sara Gorman, Scott C. Ratzan, and Kenneth H. Rabin

H5N1 communication has been strictly for the birds. Didn’t the federal government learn anything from Covid?

Health Megan Molteni

Large amount of bird flu virus in milk suggests asymptomatic cows are infected with H5N1

First Opinion Shweta Bansal and Colleen Webb

As livestock move around the country, so does H5N1. The U.S. needs real-time tracking of livestock movements

Health Helen Branswell

WHO’s top scientist learned a hard lesson about H5N1 two decades ago: Stopping it takes more than biology

Health Helen Branswell

Study of cow tissues provides clues for unusual pattern of bird flu infections in dairy cattle

Health Helen Branswell

Texas dairy farm worker’s case may be first where bird flu virus spread from mammal to human, scientists say

Health Helen Branswell

CDC’s top flu scientist says the risk to the public from H5N1 is low, but she isn’t sleeping well. Here’s why

Health Megan Molteni

Bird flu virus circulated in cows for four months before outbreak confirmed by USDA, analysis shows

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Republicans, concerned about dairy industry, urge calm about H5N1 bird flu

Health Helen Branswell

Tracking bird flu virus changes in cows is stymied by missing data, scientists say

First Opinion Denis Nash, John Dennehy, Monica Trujillo, and Leopolda Silvera

From sewage to safety: Hospital wastewater surveillance as a beacon for defense against H5N1 bird flu

Health Megan Molteni

Pasteurization inactivates H5N1 bird flu in milk, new FDA and academic studies confirm

Health Helen Branswell and Megan Molteni

What we’re starting to learn about H5N1 in cows, and the risk to people

Health Helen Branswell

There’s never a good time to drink raw milk. But now’s a really bad time as bird flu infects cows

Health Megan Molteni

Cattle testing for H5N1 bird flu will be more limited than USDA initially announced