A research team led by the School of Public Health in the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in ...

A call-to-action has been made by the Global Virus Network, who are urging world governments to increase surveillance and ...

The risk to human health is expected to rise as H5N1 evolves to better infect mammals, the study finds. This rapid adaptation means that "an H5N1 vaccine made (for an earlier strain) will have ...

The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing eminent human and animal virologists from 80+ Centers of Excellence and ...

A group of leading global virologists has published a comprehensive analysis advocating for a coordinated multi-government ...

The spread of H5N1 avian influenza virus in the United States has sparked fears of a potential pandemic. The H5N1 virus is ...

The Global Virus Network published a comprehensive analysis of the H5N1 bird flu outbreak, calling on world governments to ...

This is another modality to prevent bird flu outbreaks, and H5N1 human and bird/cow vaccines are being developed. A universal flu vaccine for all strains is the ultimate goal and may be more ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible pandemic.

The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b ... vaccine apart from the handful of bird flu vaccines approved for human use in the U.S. and Europe which, while effective, have focused ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services announced the government will invest $176 million in Moderna to expedite the creation of a pandemic influenza vaccine.