During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines. “I am not going to go into HHS and impose my preordained opinions on anybody ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted to recommend annual flu vaccines but against flu shots containing the preservative thimerosal ...

It is the seventh case of the year and is part of an overall rise in H5N1 infections in Cambodia since late 2023. The patient ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

WASHINGTON >> U.S. Senate Democrats demanded today that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. make public the reviews on ...

President Donald Trump's administration last month canceled a $590-million contract awarded to Moderna in January by outgoing ...

As bird flu cases rise in the US, South Africa's desperate need for chicken imports leads to a crucial agreement with the US government ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

South Africa will proceed with its long-awaited vaccination strategy against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), Deputy Director-General Dipepeneneng Serage announced this week at the AVI Africa ...

New CDC research suggests the H5N1 avian influenza virus that infected a Michigan dairy farmworker can be transmitted through the air. The revelation, the study's authors wrote, suggests "an ongoing ...

The federal government is canceling a $766 million contract with Moderna to develop an mRNA-based vaccine for pandemic flu, including the H5N1 bird flu. The Department of Health and Human Services ...

The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy worker in May 2024 is capable of airborne transmission, according to new research from the CDC.