This funding, announced Friday by Moderna, builds on the $176 million it received from HHS last year to support earlier stages of vaccine research.

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted millions of dollars to Moderna to speed up bird flu vaccine development.

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers wrote.

The government wants Moderna to push forward with various bird flu vaccines as well as mRNA shots for other influenza strains ...

The funding, which follows the $176 million the government awarded Moderna in June 2024, aims to get mRNA vaccines ready ...

Moderna has been testing an mRNA candidate for influenza viruses like the H5 and H7 strains that are seen as pandemic threats ...

Moderna received a $590 million award from the U.S. government to speed development of a vaccine that could be used to fight bird flu.

The government is working to head off human bird flu infections. The U.S. government has awarded Moderna $590 million to ...

The latest funding is a sign of how seriously the Biden administration appears to be taking the pandemic threat.

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CSL Seqirus has agreed to provide 665,000 doses of a bird flu vaccine to the European Commission as part of the EU’s efforts to prepare for a potential outbreak of the disease, with an option to ...