Moderna recently received $590 million to help develop vaccines to fight the virus. Their protein-based vaccines have had ...

Bird flu's unprecedented ... a potential bird flu crisis — is "worrisome," says Dr. Andrew Pavia, professor of medicine at the University of Utah who's worked on influenza pandemic preparedness ...

While bird flu’s risk to the general public remains low, there are many “barriers to success” that make containing the virus — and staving off a possible pandemic — somewhat tricky for ...

The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month ... We will certainly see another flu pandemic. That's not an "if"; it's a "when." We cannot say how severe it will be ...

Some media outlets somewhat exaggeratedly took this to mean that we are one mutation away from bird flu“becoming ... leading to a flu pandemic. Molecular barriers One of the barriers currently ...

It’s a public version of a roughly 300-page pandemic-prevention playbook that Biden officials say they are providing to the incoming administration.

Scientists say the risk H5N1 will trigger a pandemic remains low. But if the bird flu virus infects a person who's already infected with a human flu virus, the pathogens could swap genetic ...

The bird flu-related death raised fears of a possible pandemic, should the H5N1 pathogen ... of avian influenza may still persist,” said Dr. Thomas Overton, Tulare County deputy health officer.

The company's cost-cutting measures may hinder innovation, but rising COVID cases and bird flu risks could uniquely benefit Moderna if a pandemic ... Cox (main account author) is the managing ...

Five years on from the start of the covid pandemic, are we ready for a potential avian influenza outbreak? This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech ...