The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended its emergency response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak, a move ...

But vaccine uptake has been low there due to vaccine hesitancy and workers not perceiving bird flu as a "high threat," said Dr. Richard Webby, a virologist at St. Jude’s Research Hospital, in ...

In the past 30 days alone, bird flu has been confirmed in 134 commercial and backyard flocks in the US as of Monday, affecting 18.91 million birds, according to the USDA.

This new bird flu vaccine replaces the H5N1 strain with the circulating virus. The first human trials for the new vaccine have begun, starting with healthy people to ensure the vaccine triggers ...

As the bird flu outbreak continues to spread among poultry, cows and people, experts discuss the possible need for a bird flu vaccine and if we already have one.

Federal officials plan to double the stockpile of emergency bird flu vaccines as they identify more people infected with the disease. Three manufacturers were awarded $72 million to increase ...

The U.S. has two vaccines ready that could begin shipping widely within a few weeks if the H5N1 bird flu infecting dairy cows begins spreading more easily to people, federal health officials said ...

If bird flu starts to spread among people, existing vaccines may be inadequate, experts say The current U.S. stockpile of H5N1 flu shots likely won't offer much protection in the event of a ...

No one knows how much of a risk the bird flu poses of causing a human epidemic, and so a vaccine may not become necessary. Some outside experts agree the U.S. is well prepared to produce a vaccine.

Scientists concerned over eggs for bird flu vaccine 03:19. Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.. They worried about them in 2005, and in ...

Trump's pick for health secretary has a record of attacking vaccines. In fact he's even taken direct aim at bird flu shots. Scientists fear this doesn't bode well in case of a crisis.