Knowable Magazine answers questions about how dangerous bird flu is, where it came from, and what key events paved the way for the current outbreak.

Farmers in Georgia’s northeastern corner woke up on Jan. 15 to discover that birds in their flock of 45,000 chickens were ill and dying. Within 24 hours, the state’s veterinary laboratory ...

The family of a 74-year-old man who died during a trip to Hawaii say they found the skeletal remains of a human being on his Georgia property a few days after his death, police in Decatur have ...

Kenny Torrella is a senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect section, with a focus on animal welfare and the future of meat. Last week, in an effort to boost egg supply, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs ...

poultry or dairy cattle cases of bird flu. The study looked at the new clade of avian influenza virus that first appeared in the United States in January 2022 and by the end of 2024 had infected ...

Even as one of the most severe Georgia flu seasons in recent years continues to recede, health workers in the metro Atlanta area continue to express caution about respiratory, vaccine-preventable ...

The Georgia Department of Public Health is facing cuts to its funding from the federal Department of Health and Human Services, which is reorganizing its divisions to be more unified, and the agency ...

Public health disasters like a pandemic could strike at any time and a national group gave only a middle grade to South ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services canceled around $12 billion in federal grants to states that were allocated during the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal department and state officials said ...

New research shows that wild birds can account for much of the avian influenza virus evidence found in wastewater in Oregon, suggesting wastewater detections of the virus do not automatically signal ...