A Massachusetts biopharma giant is at the center of preparations already underway if bird flu mutates and begins to find ...

The US Department of HHS is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu.

While the virus hasn’t made a sustained leap into humans, vaccines and treatments are being developed ahead of an outbreak.

This latest financial support comes on top of the $176 million BARDA gave Moderna last summer. “Avian flu variants have proven to be particularly unpredictable and dangerous to humans in the past.

A new variant of the bird flu has infected a dairy worker in Nevada marking the state's first human case of the H5N1 avian influenza.

Bird flu has decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds. The risk to humans is currently low, but that could easily ...

Within 24 to 48 hours of the first detection of the virus, state and federal animal health officials work with farms to cull ...

A Nevada dairy worker who initially tested positive for bird flu is currently experiencing mild symptoms, including "pink eye ...

What you need to know about bird flu. Public health experts are closely watching avian influenza, which has affected chickens ...

Dr. Paulo H. Verardi, a virologist and head of the Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science at the University of ...