The Trump government has canceled a $ 766 million government grant that has been awarded to Moderna to develop a vaccine against bird flu.
The company said it was informed that the Health and Human Services (HHS) department had withdrawn funds by the BIDEN -Administration to pay for the development and purchase of its experimental shot.
The HHS said that a study has shown that the project did not meet the scientific standards or safety expectations required for continuous federal investments.
The new vaccine, called MRNA-1018, used the same technology that made the development and rollout of vaccines possible to combat COVID-19 in record time.
HHS boss Robert F. Kennedy JR has spoken deep skepticism with regard to vaccines, including the shots of COVID allegedly the real proof that they have saved millions of lives.
Despite the growing concern about the H5N1 -bird flu trunk, the move comes to tear through poultry and dairy farms in the US
At least 70 people in the US are sick and one person died.
Scientists fear that continuous mutation of the virus can make it possible for people to be spread more virulent or easier in people, with the possibility that it could cause a pandemic.
The Trump administration has awarded $ 766 million to drug maker Moderna to develop a vaccine against potential pandemic influenza viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu
Moderna received $ 176 million in July 2024 and would receive an extra $ 590 million after the package was approved under Biden in January.
The January prize would have supported a clinical test in the late stage that could have determined the efficacy of the vaccine against pandemic viruses, including bird flu.
The shot had already been tested with 300 healthy adults to gauge its safety.
A Moderna spokesperson said at the time: “Although the termination of the financing of HHS adds uncertainty, we are pleased with the robust immune response and the safety profile observed in this interim analysis.”
It is uncertain whether Moderha will continue to develop its bird flu vaccine without government financing.
Until now, the H5N1 outbreak has influenced almost 1,000 herds for dairy cows.
The American poultry industry runs a considerable risk, say experts from the Global Virus Network (GVN), in particular in areas with high density agriculture and where personal protective practices can be missing.
Since 2022, more than 168 million poultry in the US has been lost or cleared by the outbreak of bird flu in America, causing the price of eggs to rise.
Although the transmission from person to human has not yet been observed, experts warn that mutations and assortment when two viruses simultaneously increase a host and genetic material can increase the risk that the occurrence.
The first American bird flu death was reported in January, with a person in Louisiana died after he was admitted to the hospital with serious respiratory symptoms.
Health officials said that the person was over 65, underlying medical problems and had had contact with sick and dead birds in a herd back garden.
No other details were revealed. They also said that a genetic analysis of the patient’s infection suggested that the bird flu virus was mutated in their bodies, which could have caused a more serious disease.
The growing presence of H5N1 in the environment increases the opportunities that people will be exposed and possibly catching it.
Situation Summary of confirmed and likely human cases of bird flu since 2024
Many experts, including officials from the World Health Organization, have criticized the US’s reaction to the outbreak.
Experts have described it as a pandemic ‘unfold in Slow Motion’. Until the end of 2024, almost all tests of cattle and people who were exposed to infected cows were voluntary.
Even now, mandatory tests are only limited to cattle that move between state lines.
Cases are also sporadically registered with pigs, which relate to researchers because these animals can catch both flu strains and bird strains – and can ‘mix’ vessels for a new tribe of bird flu virus.
And infections have been recorded since May 2022, including more than 400 non-birds of wild animals in the US, including red foxes, skunk animals, seals and raccoons.
Experts warned that these animals can pick up the virus after eating carcasses of birds who had died of bird flu.
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