Vaccine vial of H5N1 in a bottle with a syringe on a blue background. There are several licensed vaccines for avian influenza in poultry, but their use has not been authorized in the U.S. during ...

Although a candidate bird flu vaccine has not yet been made commercially available, medical experts advise that people should get it once it is. Dr. Linda Yancey, an expert in infectious ...

A new strain of H5N9 bird flu was detected at a commercial duck operation in California's Merced County. All the ducks were ...

The US Department of HHS is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu.

For months, top scientists, including former government officials appointed by presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, have called on the outgoing administration to make bird flu vaccines available ...

It took over a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic before vaccines were developed and widely available to the public. So some people are asking questions about potential bird flu ...

There have been 67 confirmed human bird flu cases in the U.S. since April 2024. Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of ...

A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of ...