President Bush said he will take a $7.1-billion national avian flu strategy to Congress that includes stockpiling antiviral drugs like Tamiflu and Relenza and passing liability protection for vaccine ...

A medical reality is complicating federal preparations for the next pandemic: Flu spreads in ways that make it extremely unlikely the U.S. could avoid being hit. Even shutting U.S. borders against ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is launching a new research effort to combat the potential for human-to-human transmission of the bird flu virus H5N1 that is circulating ...

Four states—Texas, Nebraska, Kansas and New Mexico — have signed up to participate in the Voluntary H5N1 Dairy Herd Status Pilot Program that was announced May 30, and a dozen others are in talks to ...

UN officials have issued a plan to help poor countries prepare for a potential bird flu pandemic that would leave them worst affected.

Lansing — Michigan's poultry industry is criticizing the state's response to avian influenza in dairy cows, raising concerns that inadequate quarantine measures for cows could mean the disease spreads ...