The Trump administration recently canceled $766 million in contracts with Moderna to develop and produce an mRNA vaccine against pandemic influenza viruses, including H5N1 avian flu.

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Moderna is set to receive $176 million in federal funding to develop a human vaccine against bird flu following outbreaks of the virus in dairy cows across several ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended its emergency response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak, a move ...

In 2023, Moderna started a phase 1/2 study of an experimental pandemic influenza vaccines collectively known as mRNA-1018, which are designed to provide protection against H5 and H7 avian ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent the spread than public health agencies are ...

HHS Sec. RFK Jr. says Dr. Anthony Fauci is likely liable for the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling for a nationwide ...

He claimed that Gavi had “ignored the science” about vaccine safety. He had already dismissed all seventeen members of the ...

Vaccine businesses seen as valuable parts of pharma groups but government hostility could deter future developments ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...