Dr Robert Califf, its commissioner, told a Senate Committee yesterday that they were already drawing up plans to hastily grab tests, anti-virals and vaccines if the disease jumps to humans.
In 1827, when John James Audubon began publishing Birds of America, his four-volume set of iconic bird illustrations, he gained instant celebrity and solidified himself as one of the most important...
It’s spring, my favorite time of the year. My trees are leafing out, and my perennial herbaceous plants are emerging from the ground. Soon, I’ll see more insects among them and more migratory...
The feathered limbs, sharp teeth and claws of the oldest known bird-like dinosaurs, the Archaeopteryx have fascinated naturalists and paleontologists including Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin who propelled the species to fame especially…
Farmworkers have been exposed to milk infected with the bird flu virus. But there has virtually been no testing on farms, and health officials know little about who may be infected.
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration are taking precautions in case the current strain of bird flu spreading in the U.S. jumps to humans on a large scale. The FDA commissioner testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday, saying the threat…