HHS cancels funding for bird flu vaccine development
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Team Trump canceled a $770 mln contract with Moderna to develop an H5 vaccine. In a cost-benefit analysis, it’s a dangerous blunder. The last pandemic ran up an $18 trln tab and killed more Americans than all US wars combined.
The birds amassed fans, as legions of devotees follow along on webcams each spring as falcons progress from hatching to leaving the nest.
Ostriches on a British Columbia farm have died of the avian flu. Canada ordered hundreds ... Pete Kiehart for The New York Times Dr. Oz, who oversees Medicare and Medicaid for the Trump ...
H5 avian flu vaccine study shows positive interim results Company has been notified that HHS will terminate Moderna’s award for late-stage development of pre-pandemic influenza vaccines CAMBRIDGE, MA / ACCESS Newswire / May 28,
Dr. Oz, the Trump appointed director of the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, have intervened to rescue the flightless birds after authorities in British Columbia pledged to cull them amid an outbreak of avian flu.
Scientists warn that bird flu infections in household pets could create new pathway for human transmission after cases spiked dramatically in 2023 to 2024.
After rebounding in recent decades due to conservation efforts, the number of once-imperiled peregrine falcons in the U.S. has been dropping again in some places due to the bird flu that has decimated other avian populations in recent years.