Despite variations by age group and influenza virus type, the 2023-2024 influenza vaccine was protective against outpatient illness in pediatric and adult patients.

Recommendations on the strain composition of influenza virus vaccines for the 2025-2026 US season have been issued by FDA.

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus is mutating to evade immune defenses in mammals following prior infection or vaccination.

South African poultry industry suffers R1. 8 billion in losses as experts warn of potential human transmission risks from the ...

The Trump administration has not staffed an office established by Congress to prepare the nation for future pandemics, ...

Catani and colleagues provide data on antigenic properties of neuraminidase proteins of pandemic H1N1 and show that antigenic diversity of the neuraminidase from 2009 to 2020 largely falls into two ...

Influenza and the common cold are both contagious respiratory illnesses but caused by different viruses, she added. “The flu is caused by influenza viruses only whereas the common cold can be ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A study explored whether sensory experiences, like perceiving the color red, are intersubjectively equivalent using a qualia structure paradigm. Volunteers rated ...

Luban: Influenza viruses kill hundreds of thousands of people worldwide each year and have killed tens of millions in pandemics. As influenza spreads from host to host, it gradually accumulates ...

(Indianapolis, IN) – The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) continues to detect highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild birds throughout Indiana and has currently detected the H5NI ...