HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

At first, the monovalent influenza A (H5N8) vaccine will be tested in two doses, 21 days apart, in adults aged 18–59.

Compared to the standard shot, the mRNA vaccine had an overall vaccine efficacy that was 26.6 percent higher, and 27.4 ...

The new results helped boost Moderna’s stock by more than 4% in early trading Monday, though the company’s shares are still ...

"A global influenza pandemic is No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 on our list of the most-feared public health crises," according to Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for ...

William Brangham: In this scenario, a year-and-a-half into the pandemic, the hypothetical Clade X flu had killed 150 million people worldwide. A vaccine was still stuck in development.

The last few flu pandemics since 1918 have had death tolls of a million or more. Experts say it’s a matter of time until another strain hits.

The 1918 influenza pandemic was a pandemic in every sense of the word – global and affecting all people, from poor factory workers to world leaders like President Wilson.

If death and devastation defined the 1918 pandemic, luck defined the 1957 pandemic. It was luck that Hilleman saw an article about rising rates of influenza in Asia in the popular press.

John Barry, author of the 2004 book, The Great Influenza, draws parallels between today's pandemic and the flu of 1918. In both cases, he says, "the outbreak was trivialized for a long time." ...