Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

While H5N1 does not have high mortality rates in dairy cows, the infection causes decreases milk production and milk quality, ...

The shift reflects the current public health situation, marked by declines in human cases as well as animal detections ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed deep skepticism regarding mRNA vaccines, despite real-world evidence that the vaccines are safe and saved millions of lives.

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.

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

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

The CDC advised clinicians to consider H5N1 avian flu in patients who have acute respiratory illness symptoms or conjunctivitis with relevant exposure, including to raw milk.

The Trump administration has canceled $766 million awarded to drugmaker Moderna Inc. to develop a vaccine against potential pandemic influenza viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu. The company ...

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 2.3.4.4b, which ...

This vaccine showed 100% protection in mice studies against a lethal H5N1 bird flu strain. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists in Buffalo are behind a major breakthrough in the fight against avian flu.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A vaccine under development at the University at Buffalo has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work, detailed in ...