Sec. Mike Naig says the U.S. government is using what he describes as a three-legged stool approach to address the virus in ...

A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of Pittsburgh and NIH Vaccine Research Center researchers report today in ...

The number of bird flu cases in Central Massachusetts is relatively low, compared to a swath of the state that runs from ...

All nine macaques given the control developed severe disease when exposed to bird flu, as did all given the smallest dose of ...

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers ...

While drugmakers are hard at work on the shots, they’re not yet ready to blunt the impact of a potential pandemic.

People who work with livestock are at the greatest risk of bird flu. To stop the disease's spread, it's critical that they participate in testing programs and wear masks and gloves when advised. “For ...

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

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, faced another day of tough questioning today in the second of his two confirmation hearings for his ...

To elicit an immune response associated with protection in approximately 50% of subjects, two doses of 90 µg hemagglutinin (HA) of egg-grown subvirion H5N1 influenza vaccines are required.