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Missouri Bird Flu Case Raises Possibility of Human Transmission

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 (Healthday News) – In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first time, U.S. health officials have...

Source of Missouri Bird Flu Case Still Unknown, Could Be a 'One-Off': CDC

FRIDAY, Sept. 13 , 2024 – In a case that continues to confound scientists, U.S. health officials said Thursday that they still don't know how a Missouri patient caught the bird flu and that the case...

Stopping a Bird Flu Epidemic: What Experts Say Must Be Done

MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 – The time is now to prepare for a potential pandemic involving the H5N1 bird flu, says a group of international vaccine and public health experts. Avian influenza vaccines...

Missouri Patient Hospitalized With Bird Flu Had No Known Contact With Animals

MONDAY, Sept. 9 , 2024 – A case of bird flu has been confirmed in a Missouri resident who had no known contact with dairy cows, poultry or wild birds, U.S. health officials report. "The patient, who...

FDA Approves First Adjuvanted Vaccine for Prevention of H5N1 Avian Influenza

November 22, 2013 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first adjuvanted vaccine for the prevention of H5N1 influenza, commonly known as avian or bird flu. The vaccine,...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Fraudulent Avian Flu Therapies

[Posted 12/29/2005] FDA notified healthcare professionals and patients that it issued warning letters to nine companies marketing bogus flu products behind claims that their products could be...

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