H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

The vaccine will offer protection against H5N1 and is projected to be effective against future viral mutations.

“Given that some lactating cows’ “steal milk” through self-nursing or mutual-nursing, they speculated that “mouth-to-teat” ...

While H5N1 does not have high mortality rates in dairy cows, the infection causes decreases milk production and milk quality, ...

As the H5N1 avian flu continues to spread among dairy cows in the United States, nearly 5 million doses of flu vaccine are now being prepared for possible use in humans. Top News U.S. News ...

Depending on how the H5N1 virus mutates, U.S. officials are waiting to use the 4.8 million doses. Vaccines are prepped, just in case. Story by Eduardo Cuevas and Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY ...

Two types of vaccines are being prepared as defenses against the H5N1 virus. In addition to the vaccine being readied at Holly Springs, in July, the government also directed $176 million to ...

The researchers’ new H5N1 vaccine produced a high antibody response in mice and ferrets, Hensley said, adding that researchers tested the vaccine on mice who had never been exposed to the flu ...

Long known to infect wild birds and poultry, H5N1 has now made unprecedented leaps to approximately 50 species of mammals — as diverse as rats, elephant seals, bears, house cats, and humans ...

A network of nascent vaccine manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries will soon start preliminary work to develop messenger RNA vaccines targeting the H5N1 bird flu virus, an effort that ...