Rice farmers are enlisting "ield chasing ducks to eat their way through rice paddies after a harves…

"You can line up every president since then and say, 'Why didn't you think this can happen again?' …

Reopening schools could lead to more widespread coronavirus transmission — but other studies sugges…

"It's tricky because this is a global problem. So, how do countries work together, and which countr…

Unlike H5N1, birds can be infected with the H7N9 virus and show no symptoms. Since officials don't …

An increase in new bird flu viruses being detected in humans could be a result of the Chinese gover…

"In the context of infectious diseases, there is nowhere in the world from which we are remote and …

H7N9 is almost certainly under-reported — the symptoms described by the World Health Organization (…

And on March 6, someone posted on Weibo, "Ask the hospital to tell the truth." The anonymous postin…

...For the downside scenario, we think the example of the September 11 terrorist attacks could be i…

One of the men who died has two sons who suffered from acute pneumonia, one of whom died, the Assoc…

An 87-year-old man in Shanghai fell ill on February 19 and died on March 4, while a man aged 27 in …

This could be because the Chinese government has increased surveillance for avian flu infections af…

These measures will include establishing "clear, proven procedures ... for inactivation and non-via…

The goal is to spot viruses early so that the damage they do can be contained. To that end, members…

The emergence of new highly lethal influenza viruses such as H5N1 and H7N9 poses a grave threat to …

Another worrying sign of the virus' spread: It seems to have popped up in an animal in Vietnam. The…

A laboratory employee - who has now been reassigned within CDC for the duration of an internal and …

Nurses around the world tell us how their lives have changed during the coronavirus pandemic, and h…

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