It was roughly a year after the earliest cases of covid-19 before the first vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus were ready for roll-out. By then millions had died worldwide and economies were ...

Clare Howard was one of the first people to be vaccinated against the bird flu strain The first volunteers in the UK have been immunised with a vaccine to protect against a potential bird flu pandemic ...

Bird flu has flown off the national news radar, with only scattered, local reports of dead birds in parks and poultry farms. Is it simply no longer a concern, or have cuts to federal science funding ...

At the start of 2025, health officials in Louisiana reported the first U.S. bird flu death and experts questioned whether highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) could lead to the next pandemic. A ...

Health professionals have identified four viruses that could potentially trigger the next pandemic as global vaccination rates decline. Experts in infectious diseases warn that Mpox, Rubella, Bird flu ...

A university is looking for volunteers to try out a new vaccine to protect humans against a potential bird flu pandemic. The University of Nottingham is going to be helping to deliver the national ...

Six years after the COVID pandemic began, we are still locked in three of the five stages of a so-called typical response to a pandemic, as described in a recent opinion article. Those three stages ...

Are seasonal flu antibodies also effective against avian flu? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has shown that a specific type of antibody associated with the former virus—already present ...