Dr Robert Califf, its commissioner, told a Senate Committee yesterday that they were already drawing up plans to hastily grab ...
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 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.
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 ...
WASHINGTON — The commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said at a congressional hearing Wednesday the agency is preparing for the possibility the strain of avian influenza affecting ...
‘We gotta have testing, gotta have antivirals and we need to have a vaccine ready to go,’ Commissioner Califf told the Senate Agriculture Committee this week. Food safety authorities are drawing up ...
Headline shared on social media suggested that one-quarter of Americans could die from the highly pathogenic avian flu, or ...
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 ...
The U.S. government has a stockpile of H5N1 vaccines, and several companies could make millions more if needed. But scaling ...
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