The FDA is gearing up for a bird flu pandemic in people that could kill one in four of those it infects, the agency's top official has revealed. Dr Robert Califf told a Senate Committee that ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing in case the current strain of avian flu circulating in the U.S. jumps to humans on a large scale, the agency’s commissioner told senators ...
The risk to the general public is low, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Still, the federal ...
Headline shared on social media suggested that one-quarter of Americans could die from the highly pathogenic avian flu, or ...
Robert Califf said that, if we reduce spread of the virus now, “we’re much less likely to see a mutation that jumps to humans for which we are ill-prepared.” Food and Drug Administration ...
The U.S. government has a stockpile of H5N1 vaccines, and several companies could make millions more if needed. But scaling ...
The dairy farm workers will be tested for the virus if they show any symptoms, though this has not been the case so far, local health officials said. Details about their ages, gender and ...
Robert Califf told senators on the panel in charge of his agency’s funding that top officials from the FDA, Agriculture Department ... The H5N1 bird flu strain has had an impact on 36 dairy ...
Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man ...
Mina, MD, PhD, is the Chief Science Officer of eMed ... chapters one and two of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, genomic analyses tell us that bird flu had been circulating in dairy cows for at ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing in case the current strain of avian flu circulating in the U.S. jumps to humans on a large scale, the agency’s commissioner told senators Wednesday.