Bird Flu
What is bird flu? How does it affect animals and people? Do I need to be worried? Vox tackles all of your questions here.


And four other burning bird flu questions, answered.


It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle.


New regulations are a win for safe synthetic DNA.


A pandemic response that amounts to hoping and praying isn’t nearly enough.


Here’s what’s worrying experts right now about H5N1’s spread among dairy cows — and what isn’t.


How corporate greed plays a role in making bird flu outbreaks — and egg prices — worse.


How industrial meat and dairy trap us in an infectious disease cycle.


We failed to prepare, and now animals are paying the price.


13 questions about bird flu, answered.

Scientists have never seen anything like it.


If we assume eggs must be cheap, we can’t address the twin crises of factory farming and bird flu.


The H5N1 avian flu virus isn’t a major human threat today. Here’s what it’d take to become one.


The eggs are expensive because the chickens are sick.


Bird flu is driving up egg and turkey prices — and killing millions of animals. Why won’t we vaccinate against it?


Bird flu currently poses little threat to humans, but it’s hell for the birds.


This research into viruses could help us understand pandemics better - or it could cause one.
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