U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisory committee endorsed fall flu vaccinations Thursday for just ...

RFK Jr. has long linked thimerosal to autism – a connection that extensive scientific research has thoroughly debunked.

The preservative thimerosal started Robert F. Kennedy Jr. down the path of questioning vaccine safety. A panel of experts he ...

A CDC advisory panel voted 5–1 to recommend only flu vaccines without the preservative thimerosal, a mercury-containing ...

Rod Stewart, 80, postponed six performances while battling the flu. Stewart's canceled shows raised concerns about whether he’d be well enough to perform at the Glastonbury Festival.

Last week, the Associated Press reported the Trump administration canceled $766 million in funding meant to support Moderna’s development of a bird flu vaccine. The vaccine, which uses mRNA ...

Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state Agriculture Secretariat on Friday ruled out another suspected bird flu case at a commercial chicken farm in the town of Teutonia, after laboratory test results ...

OPINION Canceling Moderna’s bird flu contract could be Robert Kennedy’s most reckless act yet The federal government should be investing and working to expand the nation’s scientific and ...

A study in Genome Biology and Evolution finds that the African Swine Fever virus, currently circulating in Europe, is not the result of a recent introduction. Instead, the virus has been present ...

A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution finds that the African Swine Fever virus, currently circulating in Europe, is not the result of a recent introduction. Instead, the virus has been ...

A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population. Topics. Conditions.

In late 2023, bird flu arrived on the rocky shores of the Valdés Peninsula in Argentina, ripping through the local colony of southern elephant seals. More than 17,000 seal pups died.