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(WASHINGTON) -- Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected.Since then, at least 70 people have fallen ill and at least one death was recorded in Louisiana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The number of confirmed cases in humans has held steady for almost two months, but hundreds of dairy cows continue […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will require new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, marking what a department spokesperson called "a radical departure from past practices."The policy change would force vaccines, in order to be approved for human use, to undergo studies in which half of individuals in a study receive a placebo – typically a saline shot – to compare results against the vaccine.Placebo-controlled […]