A Massachusetts biopharma giant is at the center of preparations already underway if bird flu mutates and begins to find ...

The US Department of HHS is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu.

Waterfowl birds and their predators are especially at risk of contracting H5N1. Massachusetts has not yet reported a human ...

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

To that end, HHS has granted Moderna $590 million to help accelerate the development of a bird flu vaccine. The agency ...

“In Asia, people buy live birds at markets where they are plucked. The plucking has been shown to aerosolize virus from the ...

Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of an mRNA-based bird flu vaccine, health officials said. A California child was ...

Bird flu has had a nationwide effect causing harm to the poultry and domestic animals but it also has been posing a risk to human health. While the health risk is low, people have been cautioned.

The number of bird flu cases in Central Massachusetts is relatively low, compared to a swath of the state that runs from ...

H5N9 is “not commonly seen in poultry in general,” says Eman Anis, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Moderna is the only company in its peer group burning cash at an alarming rate. Click here to read more about MRNA stock and ...

All nine macaques given the control developed severe disease when exposed to bird flu, as did all given the smallest dose of ...