Stock photo of a syringe. Experts are urging the Biden administration to approve a vaccine for the H5N1 bird flu virus. Stock photo of a syringe. Experts are urging the Biden administration to ...

Moderna continues to cut costs, which could raise questions about the vaccine playbook used during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Although a candidate bird flu vaccine has not yet been made commercially available, medical experts advise that people should get it once it is. Dr. Linda Yancey, an expert in infectious ...

Last week’s newsletter on the Biden administration’s refusal to approve updated bird flu vaccines before the president left office prompted many reader questions, which I wanted to address here.

For months, top scientists, including former government officials appointed by presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, have called on the outgoing administration to make bird flu vaccines available ...

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

Erica Denhoff / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Moderna received a $590 million award from the U.S. government to speed development of a vaccine that could be used to fight bird flu. The biotech ...

There have been 67 confirmed human bird flu cases in the U.S. since April 2024. Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of ...

At least 66 people, most of them dairy workers, have been infected. Last week, the Louisiana Health Department reported the ...

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 ...