Moderna secured a $590 million package from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to accelerate the development of its bird influenza vaccine as concerns about a bird flu pandemic in humans ...

As fears grow of a possible bird flu pandemic in humans, the federal government is pouring more money into the development of new vaccines, including an mRNA shot.

The current public-health risk is low, but the CDC is watching the situation carefully and working with states to monitor ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services will award $590 million to Moderna to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu, the pharmaceutical company announced Friday.

Mutations in one of the first human-isolated strains of H5N1 bird flu in the US were identified by the Texas Biomedical ...

(Reuters) -The U.S. government has awarded Moderna $590 million to advance the development of its bird flu vaccine, as the ...

People hospitalised for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Although it says the risk of bird flu contagion to the public remains low, with no evidence of human-to-human transmission, ...

The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate amid ongoing outbreak.

People hospitalized for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, in an expansion of the agency’s efforts to tackle ...

The CDC recommends that hospitalized flu patients be tested for bird flu within 24 hours to timely identify avian influenza A ...

CDC officials said they opted to upgrade the advisory after seeing more patients whose illness cannot be traced back to an infected animal or bird. "That's a newer finding in the history of H5 - not ...