US Announces New Funds For MRNA Vaccines, Fast Tracks Bird Flu Tests
President Joe Biden's outgoing administration on Thursday announced $211 million in new funding to develop mRNA vaccines against emerging biothreats and said it was accelerating bird flu testing, as fears of another pandemic loom.
The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate amid ongoing outbreak.
Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.
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The First Human Bird Flu Death Has Occurred in the United StatesThe LDH revealed that the patient was over age 65, had underlying medical conditions and contracted bird flu after exposure ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains that the virus that sickened the Louisiana patient matched a ...
A Louisiana patient is the first person in the United States to die as a result of H5N1 infection. One expert likens what ...
H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causing mild illness. A Louisiana man was the first to get severely sick.
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...
The US Department of Health and Human Services will award $590 million to Moderna to continue developing a vaccine to protect ...
Human MxA protein suppresses mammalian H5N1 virus replication, but emerging mutations may enable partial evasion, raising ...
The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the same influenza ... Single Mutation in H5N1 Influenza Surface Protein Could Enable Easier Human Infection ...
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