The first ever avian influenza vaccine recently started trials in the UK. This marks a milestone in the prevention of bird ...

Clare Howard was one of the first people to be vaccinated against the bird flu strain The first volunteers in the UK have been immunised with a vaccine to protect against a potential bird flu pandemic ...

Bird flu is spreading. The avian influenza virus H5N1 has been recorded around the world — in poultry, in wild birds and in mammals, including humans. So, should we be worried about a potential new ...

A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the devastation of COVID-19, if the H5N1 virus mutates to spread easily ...

Bird flu has flown off the national news radar, with only scattered, local reports of dead birds in parks and poultry farms. Is it simply no longer a concern, or have cuts to federal science funding ...

Moderna announced Thursday it will receive up to $54.3 million from a global vaccine partnership to fund its ongoing research into a potential bird flu mRNA vaccine, helping to recover some of the ...

Six years after the COVID pandemic began, we are still locked in three of the five stages of a so-called typical response to a pandemic, as described in a recent opinion article. Those three stages ...