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The State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the InnoHK Center for Virology, Vaccinology and Therapeutics (CVVT) have pioneered an influenza virus ...

Osofsky is a wildlife veterinarian and the Jay Hyman professor of wildlife health and health policy at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The Trump administration recently canceled ...

Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) on Thursday revealed preclinical data from the H5N1 avian pandemic influenza vaccine candidate. Leveraging Novavax’s recombinant, protein-based nanoparticle technology and ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine have developed a nasal vaccine against the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, or bird flu, which has jumped from wild birds to livestock to humans. When tested ...

A new vaccine to protect dairy and poultry workers from bird flu does not require a needle and works against multiple strains of the H5N1 virus, researchers at the University of Maryland Center for ...

In a phase I trial, an intranasal adjuvanted recombinant influenza vaccine appeared to result in response to a range of H5N1 clades. The adjuvanted vaccine elicited seroconversion against clade 2 ...

Peer-reviewed data shows Novavax's H5N1 vaccine candidate demonstrated immunogenicity against currently circulating variants following either single or two-dose administration Potential for single ...

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 ...

A case report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week has confirmed something experts ...