The Trump administration in May cancelled a $700 million contract with Moderna to develop a human bird flu vaccine. Health ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators this week urged the administration of President Donald Trump to finalize a science-based ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial vaccine advisory committee will be meeting later this week under ...

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...

PARIS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the ...

• Pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been rapidly increasing and evolving in commercial poultry flocks and dairy herds over the past three years, and is now deeply entrenched. • The United States ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission received preliminary positive test results for bird flu in geese last week, the agency’s marine biologist said. The Wildlife ...

A Washington state resident believed to be the first person to be infected with a rare strain of bird flu has died, state health officials announced. The person — an older adult with underlying health ...

A new strain of the flu called subclade K could make for a particularly nasty flu season across the country, according to public health experts. The strain already caused Japan to declare an influenza ...

The Washington State Department of Health has announced that H5N5, a bird flu strain that has never been detected in humans globally, led to the death of an older adult on Friday, adding, however, ...