The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — eggs, milk, bread, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, chicken, ground beef ...

Officials say the deaths of 72 tigers at two tourist parks in northern Thailand are a result of canine distemper and not bird ...

China’s government intervened and helped get charges dropped against three Chinese scientists at the University of Michigan who were accused of helping a colleague smuggle biological materials into ...

Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois District 9 Republican Party Primary To inform voters, the Chicago ...

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary on Monday defended his agency's position and record on mRNA vaccines, days after it ...

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Researchers have found avian flu in elephant seal pups at California’s Año Nuevo State Park, and officials have stopped ...

Highly pathogenic avian flu, or bird flu, has been confirmed in birds in Boston area parks, public health officials said Wednesday. Risk of human infection is currently low,” Boston Public Health ...

Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania convened a crisis response meeting this week to address a massive avian influenza outbreak in the state. Per state officials, nearly 7.6 million birds have ...

Researchers at UC Davis say news they've dreaded since 2023 has come to pass: California's elephant seals have been infected with H5N1 bird flu.

A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California, scientists announced ...

Officials say the deaths of 72 tigers at two tourist parks in northern Thailand are a result of canine distemper and not bird ...