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

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

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

The H5N1 virus has a ways to go before it can successfully jump to humans but that it doesn’t reduce the threat it poses.

Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the ...

The avian influenza prevention zone (AIPZ) is being extended to mitigate the risk of further outbreaks of the disease ...

Researchers at Texas Biomed have identified nine mutations in a strain of bird flu found in a person in Texas. Bad news: This ...

Bobbi Pritt, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic, has opened up about conditions required for ...

To learn more about the recent bird flu outbreaks, we spoke with Asha Shah, MD, director of infectious diseases and ...

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