While the virus hasn’t made a sustained leap into humans, vaccines and treatments are being developed ahead of an outbreak.

"The only reason that we are not vaccinating poultry against bird flu is because the chicken companies don't want to," deCoriolis said. "Industrial meat companies rely on export markets for their ...

Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused ...

“Although individual vaccines have been developed and approved for use in humans against SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses, ...

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 ...

Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of an ...

The findings could help in the development of a universal flu vaccine, the authors wrote in their Jan. 30 Science paper sharing the results. “This antibody is targeting a region that does not ...

as experts seek to match flu vaccines to currently spreading virus strains. For example, last year's seasonal flu vaccine was 41% effective in preventing medically attended flu, but offered ...

The US Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response plans to have “up to 10 million doses of prefilled syringes and multidose vials ... offered seasonal flu vaccines in order ...