Flu-related deaths in Washington state have reached a near 10-year high, according to new numbers from the Washington state ...

Apr. 17, 2025 — A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as ...

Apr. 18, 2025 — A team led by researchers say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and ...

Photo by Mark Katzman. Air pollution in India resulted in 1.67 million deaths in 2019—the largest pollution-related death toll in any country in the world—and also accounted for $36.8 billion in ...

Landrigan, M.D., and DeLuca Endowed Professor in Biology and Vice Provost Thomas Chiles among its members. The death toll, based on 2019 data, pins one in six deaths worldwide to pollution – a number ...

“The risk remains of new variants emerging that cause new surges in cases and deaths ... pandemic virus of 1918 to disappear,” he said, referring to the Spanish flu that is thought to ...

Delaney Tarpley joined the WECT news team in September 2023 as a multimedia journalist and weekend anchor. Delaney was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a proud alum of the University ...

A man walks past an electronic screen displaying stock quotation board in Tokyo, Japan April 15, 2025. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo European stocks rebounded on Wednesday, as investors drew some ...

The World Health Organization and the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization this month warned that Lunar New Year festivities celebrated in much of Asia posed an increased risk of spreading the ...

The bird flu is a viral disease that affects birds, mammals and occasionally humans, the ministry said. Globally, 464 fatal human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus have been reported in 24 ...

Thanks for following our live coverage, that's all for today. Before we go, here's a round-up of the day's key events: A senior aide to Vladimir Putin said that Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's peace ...