U.S. health officials are terminating a $590 million contract with Moderna Inc. to develop vaccines for bird flu, a major setback for the company that’s also facing additional government ...

The US has withdrawn $766 million in funding for Moderna's H5N1 vaccine amid a severe bird flu outbreak. This raises concerns over vaccine development and pandemic preparedness as the virus ...

Since the summer, the U.S. has begun preparing about 10 million doses of a vaccine that they think will be effective against H5N1 bird flu. Federal officials have elected not to use the vaccine ...

Offit worries vaccine hesitancy may also play a role in U.S. preparedness against bird flu. On Friday, the Trump administration issued an executive order that prohibited federal funding for COVID ...

There have been 16 bird flu cases confirmed in the U.S. so far this year but the risk of bird flu to the general public remains low, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the country’s first human death due to bird flu, vaccination isn’t yet ...

The U.S. built a poultry vaccine stockpile after the prior major bird flu outbreak in 2014 and 2015, though the vaccines were never used, the agency said in a press release.

The H5N1 bird flu virus has historically extracted a heavy toll when it infects humans, with nearly half of confirmed cases ...

Iowa poultry producers have been hard hit by bird flu virus, killing nearly 23.3 million chickens, turkeys and other birds in infected flocks to prevent the spread of the disease since the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is "18 months or so" away from identifying a vaccine for the current strain of bird flu and is developing a process to distribute it, said Agriculture Secretary ...

The Biden administration is monitoring what experts say is the deadliest outbreak of bird flu that the US has ever seen, and officials are considering a “range of options” on how to respond.