Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the U.S. Here's what you need to know about the current situation.

Jan. 15, 2025 — Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain.

It may be difficult to ascertain the extent to which avian flu has spread from country to country, but we may be in the midst ...

(HealthDay News) — On Tuesday ... the risk to the general public remains low. Moderna is currently in the very early stages of testing a bird flu vaccine using the same mRNA technology that ...

Additional data required by the FDA are the latest evidence of what one analyst described as a “higher bar” for vaccines.

While bird flu has been around for decades, the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen spread from a wild bird to a cow came as a surprise to virus watchers, according to news officials.

Is the United States prepared for an avian flu pandemic? Over the past few weeks ... told The Greenville News. "We don't want it spreading so much that it gives it so many opportunities to ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks within poultry and U.S. dairy cows. Recently, there have been several human cases of bird flu within U.S.

A combination shot for flu and COVID-19 using messenger RNA generated antibodies in a study, but U.S. government regulators want to see data on whether the new vaccine protects people from getting ...

Moderna is testing a pandemic-focused vaccine for avian influenza A(H5N1). HealthDay News — On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the government will invest $176 ...

However, some experts told ABC News fear the virus ... the development of a human bird flu vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. Earlier this year, Moderna was awarded approximately ...