As human cases of avian influenza slowly tick up amid the outbreak in U.S. dairy cattle, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Former Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen suggested President Joe Biden push the Food and Drug Administration to ...

The call to authorize a vaccine comes after the CDC announced that a person in Louisiana was hospitalized with the country's first known case of severe illness caused by the virus earlier this month.

Pennsylvania has so far seen no cases of bird flu in cattle and has not detected a case of the virus in domestic birds in at ...

Scientists are using COVID-19 vaccine technologies to develop better vaccines against influenza viruses, including H5N1 bird ...

Hensley said his laboratory has tested a new mRNA vaccine in calves. For humans, the federal government has two bird flu vaccines stockpiled, though they would need Food and Drug Administration ...

The U.S. has also poured funding to research vaccine candidates against bird flu. A study of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine published Wednesday showed promise, producing immune responses against the ...

From political battles over public health issues to blockbuster weight-loss drugs and new viral threats, 2024 has been a ...

For influenza viruses, imperfection is a strength. They constantly mutate, producing new strains that challenge immune ...

The current US outbreak of the flu – technically the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or H5N1 bird flu – was first reported ...