There is no evidence that a senior Food and Drug Administration (FDA) worker was arrested after samples of the H5N1 bird flu virus were found in his fridge. The narrative stems from a website whose ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and mammals around the world. And that's a serious risk for human health.

Bird flu has decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds. The risk to humans is currently low, but that could easily ...