As part of the containment measures, all birds in the affected live bird market were culled, and the market was closed for 21 ...

Mass culling is expensive, but alternatives, like vaccinating chickens or luring wild birds away from domestic flocks, would ...

The outbreak of bird flu that began in the United States in 2022 among wild birds and poultry has since spread to dairy ...

Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, the head of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday it plans to spend up to $1 billion in Commodity Credit Corporation ...

Zoetis also has an H5N1 vaccine, for which it received a conditional license in 2016 and a contract award for the USDA’s ...

The tsunami of federal employee firings in recent weeks has punched sizable wholes in the decades-old, national health and ...

About half of the funds will go toward helping farmers bolster their biosecurity measures. The department is also working to ...

U.S. officials are reportedly considering pulling the plug on a $590 million contract awarded to Moderna to develop a bird ...

The Trump administration confirmed it is reevaluating a $590 million human bird flu vaccine contract awarded to Moderna in ...

So far, most people with documented cases of bird flu have had mild symptoms that you would associate with a cold or standard flu - fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat and nasal congestion—and one ...

Early signs from the field trial indicate that two new vaccines protect hens against H5N1, but it is too soon to draw firm ...