There have been, through 6 months this year, a total of 1,267 cases, in 38 jurisdictions. Eighty-eight percent of cases are ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer and critic Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection out titled No Sense in Wishing.

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the end of the bird flu emergency, at least for now.

Mosquitoes collected from a Panhandle mosquito trap site in Scotts Bluff County recently tested positive for West Nile virus. A positive test is an indicator that West Nile is circulating ...