There are currently no recommendations for anyone to be vaccinated against bird flu and federal health officials note this is being done out of "an abundance of caution." ...
If the influenza virus infecting cattle workers starts a pandemic, help in the form of a vaccine is months away ...
federal health officials announced a significant initiative to bolster the United States' preparedness against potential bird flu outbreaks by allocating USD72 million to vaccine manufacturers.
Birds and humans have different types of receptors in their respiratory tract that flu viruses attach to, like a lock ...
The US government ... influenza vaccine, as reports emerge of a fifth human case of H5N1 flu linked to ongoing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows. The award from the Biomedical Advanced Research ...
H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...
including filling doses of bird flu vaccine into vials to shore up the national stockpile. Earlier this month, federal health ...
The federal government is investing over $70 million to make a bird flu vaccine to inoculate people. Sam Jarvis with the Johnson County Department of Public Health says the Biomedical Advanced ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon begin testing bulk raw milk across the country for bird flu, a significant ...
The US will expand milk testing as part of efforts to curb the spread of bird flu in dairy cows, according to Agriculture ...
If a pig infected with human flu got infected with the H5N1 bird flu, a new virus could emerge with parts of both. That’d be ...
has revealed new information on this year’s flu vaccine. Each year, the CDC looks at flu season data from South America, as the flu season there occurs earlier than in the States.