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The US Is Loading Up on Bird Flu Vaccine


As more farm workers get sick with avian influenza, the US federal government is putting $72 million toward strengthening its vaccine stockpile.

Moderna, Pfizer, and GSK are also working on mRNA vaccines for bird flu, but those need to go through human testing and be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration before they could be used. The individuals are farm workers who had contact with infected dairy cows at two different facilities in Central Valley, the epicenter of the state’s cattle outbreak. Nirav Shah, the CDC’s principal deputy director, said the new cases do not change the agency’s risk assessment for the general public, which continues to be low.

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