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

If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

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

For example, CSL Seqirus, which supplies flu vaccine to the U.S. market and has a licensed pandemic H5N1 vaccine in the National Pre-Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Stockpile (NPIVS), showed that 7.5 ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is a broad term that refers to several types of influenza that normally infect birds. The bird flu that’s been making news in the United States is a virus called H5N1.

H5N1 bird flu, prevalent in U.S. wild birds, has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, leading to 70 human cases and one death since 2024. Experts are divided on the pandemic ...

H5N1 bird flu is widespread among wild birds in the United States, and has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows. Since 2024, the Centers for Disease Control has reported 70 human ...

If H5N1 bird flu does manage to start spreading from person to person, the big question is how deadly it would be. Of the people confirmed to be infected with the virus since 2003, half have died.

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads across all 50 states, impacting cows at US dairy farms, leading to human infections and raising ...

These stubborn attitudes might turn H5N1 bird flu into a pandemic. Skip to main content. Scientific American. Opinion. June 5, 2024. 5 min read. H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet.

H5N1 is a specific strain of influenza A virus, also known as bird flu. The avian flu is a highly contagious respiratory disease that primarily affects birds, but can also infect other animals ...

H5N1 is a specific strain of influenza A virus, also known as bird flu. The avian flu is a highly contagious respiratory disease that primarily affects birds, but can also infect other animals ...