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

This latest outbreak is part of a broader epizootic that has swept across the United States, affecting not only poultry but ...

While drugmakers are hard at work on the shots, they’re not yet ready to blunt the impact of a potential pandemic.

At least two field trials of vaccines against the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) are set to be completed by the end ...

Sec. Mike Naig says the U.S. government is using what he describes as a three-legged stool approach to address the virus in ...

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of an ...

Local hospitals are now being urged by the CDC to be on the lookout for avian influenza among patients. When children are ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today confirmed more H5N1 avian ...

A new bird flu strain was detected on a California duck farm. But what's the difference between H5N9 and H5N1, and is it safe ...

Both H5N9 and H5N1 were detected at the duck farm in Merced County, according to tests conducted by the US Department of ...

Suresh Mittal, Distinguished Professor of Virology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, presented “Universal Influenza Vaccine — An Aspiration or Reality?” at the Westwood Lecture Series on Jan. 28.