H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the ...
As more cases of bird flu emerge across the country, public health leaders in New York City are watching warily -- and making ...
To learn more about the recent bird flu outbreaks, we spoke with Asha Shah, MD, director of infectious diseases and ...
H5N1 bird flu has been found to infect mammals more extensively. Although there has yet to be evidence of human-to-human ...
Local research and biotechnology laboratories Trudeau Institute and Ampersand Biosciences have received a $1 million grant to ...
Moderna has been testing an mRNA candidate for influenza viruses like the H5 and H7 strains that are seen as pandemic threats ...
Traditional vaccines typically focus on the most accessible parts of viruses, which are often the rapidly mutating ...
A new experimental vaccine developed by researchers at MIT and Caltech could offer protection against emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, as well as related coronaviruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that ...
Just outside New York City’s Central Park Zoo, not far from where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once stealthily deposited a dead bear cub, stands a bronze statue to another animal: Balto, the husky that, 100 ...
New research emphasizes the need for ongoing COVID-19 protection for people with weakened immune systems, with scalable tests ...
Whether COVID-19 was unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals remains an enduring, fiercely contested ...
Moderna – at the moment embroiled in a patent dispute with Pfizer and BioNTech over mRNA intellectual property – is also testing a vaccine that combines COVID-19 and flu in a single jab in a ...