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Health officials were struggling to answer a broader and potentially worrisome question: how the infection occurred.

Researchers are urging the CDC to get ahead of the H5N1 virus 'before it’s too late.'

Federal health officials say the U.S. has the building blocks to make a vaccine to protect humans from bird flu, if needed. But experts warn we're nowhere near prepared for another pandemic.

Rick Bright ran antibacterial programs at the government’s US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority

The rise of COVID cases in some regions of the U.S., just as testing efforts wane, has raised the specter that the next major wave of the virus may be difficult to detect. In fact, the country could be in the midst of a surge right now and we might…

The US was among the best equipped to deal with a pandemic – but its Covid response has been plagued by failures