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 ...

As fears grow of a possible bird flu pandemic in humans, the federal government is pouring more money into the development of ...

(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.

H5N1 has been responsible for widespread outbreaks in poultry and wild birds, causing significant losses in the animal population. Experts warn that although human-to-human transmission has not yet ...

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 ...

Due to ongoing sporadic H5N1 avian flu infections and brisk levels of seasonal flu activity, the US Centers for Disease ...

The advisory is intended to prevent delays in identifying human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses amid high levels of ...

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