H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the ...
Sec. Mike Naig says the U.S. government is using what he describes as a three-legged stool approach to address the virus in ...
A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of Pittsburgh and NIH Vaccine Research Center researchers report today in ...
Health authorities need to be concerned about bird flu, but the risk to the public is low. You’re reading The Checkup With Dr ...
While drugmakers are hard at work on the shots, they’re not yet ready to blunt the impact of a potential pandemic.
Researchers at Texas Biomed have identified nine mutations in a strain of bird flu found in a person in Texas. Bad news: This ...
San Francisco confirmed that a child in the city became the first case of H5N1. A panel of biotech leaders discussed what ...
The government wants Moderna to push forward with various bird flu vaccines as well as mRNA shots for other influenza strains ...
No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...
"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers wrote.
The US Department of HHS is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu.