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 ...

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.

Measles outbreaks. A canceled effort to develop a bird flu vaccine. An infectious new COVID variant and changing federal guidance about who should get boosted. In recent weeks, drama in D.C. has ...

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 ...

If bird flu is mainly limited to farmworkers and only occasionally severe, why dedicate so much money for vaccine development? This view misses the unpredictability of infectious pathogens. Like ...