US health officials announced Friday they were awarding $590 million to Moderna to develop mRNA vaccines against influenza, including advancing the company's bird flu vaccine, as fears of a new ...

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

Kentucky is not among the states where avian flu — also known as H5N1 — has been detected in humans, but the spread is ...

This is in addition to $176 million awarded last year to complete late-stage development and testing of a pre-pandemic ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services will award $590 million to Moderna to continue developing a vaccine to protect ...

The CDC announced on Thursday its recommendation to test hospitalized influenza A patients more quickly and thoroughly to distinguish between seasonal flu and bird flu.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients ...

The case of the Canadian teen and the death of a Louisiana man are stark reminders of bird flu’s capacity to ignite serious illness.

The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate amid ongoing outbreak.

For the first time, birds in a Wayne County backyard flock have been sickened by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, MDARD reported.

A backyard flock in New London County has contracted bird flu after contact with wild waterfowl in a nearby pond, according to the state Department of Agriculture. They said there have been no human ...