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US pays Moderna $176m to develop bird-flu vaccine

The US government has given Moderna $176m (£139m) to develop a messenger-ribonucleic-acid-based (mRNA) pandemic influenza vaccine that would work against…

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How Much Worse Would a Bird-Flu Pandemic Be?

Updated at 12:05 p.m. ET on June 7, 2024 Our most recent flu pandemic—2009’s H1N1 “swine flu”—was, in absolute terms,…

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Farmworkers’ Bird-Flu Infections Are a Problem for Everyone

It was bound to happen again. For the second time in two months, the United States has confirmed a case…

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Pigs Would Be a Dangerous Bird-Flu Host

Of all the creatures stricken with this new and terrible H5N1 flu—the foxes, the bears, the eagles, ducks, chickens, and…

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