infectious disease

In the Lab Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: New antiviral works against coronaviruses in mice, but human testing will have to wait

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

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

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: The public wants Medicare to cover obesity drugs

Health Sarah Owermohle

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

Health Helen Branswell

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

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

First Opinion Emmi S. Herman

Measles is coming back. My sister Marcie isn’t

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

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

UnitedHealth’s Andrew Witty gets no pity in Congress

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

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Doctors Without Borders challenges pharma by releasing costs for a key clinical trial

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

Exclusive Megan Molteni

Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread

Health Alex Hogan

Watch: What we know about traces of H5N1 bird flu found in pasteurized milk