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

The US Department of Health and Human Services announced the government will invest $176 million in Moderna to expedite the creation of a pandemic influenza vaccine.

It's spring, the birds are migrating and bird flu (H5N1) is rapidly evolving into the possibility of a human pandemic.

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 ...

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.

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.

In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from Moderna reported that the new combo ...

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 ...

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 ...