The US Department of Health and Human Services is to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being ...

The decision will impact 22 projects speerheaded by major pharmaceutical companies for vaccines against bird flu and other ...

The controversial move affects development of vaccines against COVID-19, flu and H5N1, drawing criticism from public health ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is cancelling contracts and withdrawing funding from certain vaccine ...

The mutations in the bird flu, or H5N1, viruses that caused severe infections in British Columbia and Louisiana both occurred in a protein on the surface of the virus that allows it to attach to ...

The bird flu virus drawing attention today — Type A H5N1 — was first identified in 1959. Like other viruses, it has evolved over time, spawning newer versions of itself.

Bird Flu Egg prices have soared 60% in a year. Here's why. Egg costs are soaring as Americans' eating habits change and as a deadly disease wipes out millions of birds. Jan 17, 2023 ...

A Stanford-led study found that children facing a rare, deadly flu complication involving brain swelling and runaway immune responses may have better chances of recovery with rapid, targeted care—and ...

A U.S. B-29 bomber dropped the atomic weapon "Little Boy" on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Three days later, the nearby city of Nagasaki was destroyed by a second American atomic bomb and WWII ended ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday it has ended its emergency response for H5N1 bird flu, owing to a decline in animal infections and no reports of human cases ...

The bird flu emergency is officially over, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency’s emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, which was activated on April ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground. Birds are kept in disgusting, crowded conditions that encourage viral spread.