The vaccine doesn’t offer protection against H5N1. ... Pharmaceutical company Moderna is also developing a bird flu vaccine for humans and has received about $766 million from the U.S ...

If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

The report added that if bird flu becomes more widespread, vaccinating chickens against bird flu could become the norm. Can humans get bird flu? Cases of H5N1 in humans have been rare.

Read More: A New Bird Flu Death Is Making Experts Uneasy. Several academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, are working on an mRNA H5N1 vaccine. On July 2 ...

Life science companies developing bird flu vaccines and antivirals are gaining attention as the avian influenza subtype H5N1 becomes an increasing concern. The United States is in the midst of an ...

H5N1 bird flu is here. It’s moving from animals to people in ways not seen before. It’s spreading to new species and new places, and this spread is largely happening under the radar.. So far ...

Researchers are developing an mRNA-based vaccine against the contagious H5N1 bird flu virus that is spreading rapidly among poultry and cattle and has already infected two humans in the United States.

Scientists concerned over eggs for bird flu vaccine 03:19. Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.. They worried about them in 2005, and in ...

Medical experts advise that people should get a vaccine for the bird flu when it becomes commercially available. One doctor said the most at-risk patients should be first.

If the H5N1 bird flu virus ever acquires the ability to transmit easily to and among people — keep your fingers crossed that it doesn’t — the world is going to need serious amounts of ...