A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator. Around the same time, a senior in Louisiana was diagnosed with the first ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers wrote.

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

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

For example, research led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that an mRNA-based H5N1 vaccine induced strong antibody responses in ferrets, which could survive lethal ...

One of the ways the CDC has stepped up its surveillance of H5N1 infections in people is by ... term manufacturing capability of an RNA-based vaccine platform technology to combat evolving 21st ...

Mutations in one of the first human-isolated strains of H5N1 bird flu in the US were identified by the Texas Biomedical ...

is working on an updated mRNA H5N1 vaccine. Vaccine production efforts are ramping up as health officials monitor the outbreak closely. In an update on Monday, CDC said there have been 66 ...