In today’s Health Alert, a new strain of bird flu - H5N9 - has been detected in the U.S. The first confirmed case was found ...

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

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

As bird flu continues to threaten animals and public health, the U.S. government has stepped up its response. Experts says it ...

Moderna is working with the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a vaccine to combat bird flu. Human to human ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly ordered its staff to cease all collaboration with the World Health ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens ...

Concerns about bird flu are growing among health officials weeks after the first person in the U.S. died from the virus, and ...

While drugmakers are hard at work on the shots, they’re not yet ready to blunt the impact of a potential pandemic.

As more cases of bird flu emerge across the country, public health leaders in New York City are watching warily -- and making ...

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the ...