COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

New research suggests that past exposure to seasonal flu viruses may help protect people from severe illness caused by the ...

During the 1918-1910 flu pandemic ... The first clinical trials of influenza vaccines were conducted in the mid-1930s. In 1938, medical researchers Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis Jr. used the ...

Early flu exposure helps immunity against H5N1 infection, with older adults having stronger antibody responses.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the current winter presented unusually high flu risk.

The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War was coming to ...

Current influenza vaccines primarily elicit antibodies that recognize hemagglutinin ... researchers obtained blood samples from a separate group of individuals born between 1918 and 2003 before and ...

Prior exposures to specific types of seasonal influenza viruses promote cross-reactive immunity against the H5N1 avian influenza virus, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine ...

Prevention strategies involving annual influenza vaccination and a global prevention ... the HAs of the 1918 pandemic virus and A(H1N1)pdm09 virus have marked similarities. These two pandemics ...

We live 30 years longer than we did 100 years ago primarily because of vaccines. One should recall the Global Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920, which killed an estimated 20 to 50 million people and ...

One age group are more likely to have antibodies that bind to the H5N1 avian flu virus, new research has found.