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Mass.-based Moderna could be first to manufacture bird flu vaccine
“Avian flu variants have proven to be particularly unpredictable and dangerous to humans in the past,” now-former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in January. “Accelerating the development of new ...
As bird flu becomes a growing threat, Moderna is awarded $590M to develop mRNA pandemic influenza vaccines
No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even probable.
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Opinion: The time to tackle bird flu is now
The first human death from bird flu in the United States occurred on ... In a joint op-ed in USA Today, Xavier Becerra, secretary of Health and Human Services, and Tom Vilsack, secretary of ...
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HHS Provides $590 Million to Moderna for Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Development
The initiative focuses on creating an mRNA vaccine for H5N1 influenza, a strain with pandemic ... and HHS,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “Accelerating the development of new vaccines ...