Bird flu (H5N1) is widely spreading in flocks of wild birds, causing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows around the country.

The H5N1 virus has mutated meaning it has begun to adapt to infect humans better raising new questions about H5N1's pandemic ...

The US contributes around a fifth of the budget for the World Health Organization – its withdrawal from the public health ...

Staff at the World Health Organization are “devastated” by President Donald Trump’s executive order to pull the U.S. out of ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will award roughly $590 million to Moderna to accelerate the development of mRNA-based pandemic influenza vaccines, including vaccines for avian flu ...

The support is designed to speed development of well-matched H5N1 vaccines and pave the way for vaccines against other ...

The latest poultry outbreak confirmation from the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) includes a ...

A suspected Marburg virus outbreak in the Kagera region of Tanzania has been linked to nine suspected cases and eight deaths, ...

Moderna has been testing an mRNA candidate for influenza viruses like the H5 and H7 strains that are seen as pandemic threats ...

The funding, which follows the $176 million the government awarded Moderna in June 2024, aims to get mRNA vaccines ready ...