In a Policy Forum, Erin Sorrell and colleagues – a coalition of virologists, veterinarians, and health security experts – ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the United States, made a weird suggestion back in March that bird flu should be allowed to run rampant in chickens and the infected ...

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The so-called "big, beautiful bill" will lead to millions of fewer people having health coverage in the United States. It will make the country less prepared to detect and respond to a future pandemic ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

The University of Minnesota is stepping up efforts to identify biological threats that could trigger an epidemic, launching ...

Moderna's new flu vaccine, based on the same mRNA technology used in its COVID-19 shot, showed promising results in a major ...

Compared to the standard shot, the mRNA vaccine had an overall vaccine efficacy that was 26.6 percent higher, and 27.4 ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

Even as the economy stabilizes, the cost of eating keeps creeping higher and rising prices are exposing sharp divides in how ...