Becker's Healthcare May 2, 2024
The U.S. has two vaccines ready to circulate if bird flu begins spreading easily to humans, with doses that could begin shipping widely within weeks, if needed, NBC News reported May 1.
Both vaccine candidates are already in the nation’s stockpile in limited qualities, health officials said. And studies suggest they will offer “good cross-protection against cattle outbreak viruses,” Demetre Daskalakis, MD, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told NBC.
State and federal health officials on April 1 confirmed an individual in Texas who worked on a dairy farm had tested positive for H5N1. The case is believed to be tied to recent detections of bird flu among dairy cows in the U.S. The Department...
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