There have been 67 confirmed human bird flu cases in the U.S. since April 2024. Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a ...

In 2023, Moderna initiated a study on a “pandemic influenza vaccine” to protect against H5 and H7 avian influenza viruses. In July, the company received $176 million from HHS toward its ...

The influenza activity map shows 43 jursidictions with high or very high activity, including Kentucky. More than 37,000 patients were admitted to the hospital due to the flu during the week ending ...

About 20% of tests for influenza came back as positive in California for the week of Dec. 29 to Jan. 4, according to the California Department of Public Health. That’s down 1.9% from the ...

The best way to protect yourself and the people around you from influenza, also known as “the flu,” is to get the flu vaccine every year. Even if you typically don’t get sick, getting ...

The US government has awarded Moderna US$590 million (S$807 million) to advance the development of its bird flu vaccine, as the country doubles down on efforts to tackle increasing infections in ...

Its alert to doctors and hospitals follows a few rare but mysterious bird flu cases in the US – including, most recently, a child in San Francisco confirmed to have had H5N1 influenza – that ...

Two-year-old Gracie McHugh was dismissed as having the flu, but her mom brought her back to the hospital after looking up her symptoms online Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her ...

As of the week ending Jan. 4, 18.6% of tests for influenza are returning positive, as are 11.6% of RSV tests and 6.9% of COVID tests. Meanwhile, for norovirus, 27.91% of weekly tests have come ...

The first is that strains of circulating viruses change each year, which reduces immune protections similarly to influenza and Covid. Additionally, people’s immunity to particular strains of ...