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

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

Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of an mRNA-based bird flu vaccine, health officials said.

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

In 2023, Moderna initiated a study on a “pandemic influenza vaccine” to protect against H5 and H7 avian influenza viruses. In July, the company received $176 million from HHS toward its ...

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

The U.S. government has handed Moderna almost $600 million to accelerate its work on various bird flu vaccines as well as work on mRNA vaccines for other influenza strains with pandemic potential.

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

Waterfowl birds and their predators are especially at risk of contracting H5N1. Massachusetts has not yet reported a human ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted millions of dollars to Moderna to speed up bird flu vaccine development.