Pediatric and adult patients experienced noninferior and robust immune responses to RIV4, as well as similar safety profiles.

The HHS is betting $500 million on developing a universal flu vaccine that could protect against multiple flu strains.

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

This is the first time we’ve had access to an influenza genome from the 1918–1920 pandemic in Switzerland. It opens up new insights into the dynamics of how the virus adapt ...

But influenza viruses are slippery beasts ... “The whole reproduction system was damaged,” she says. “There was no social ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH’s Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918–1920 influenza ...

At the surface, the immune response to a flu virus is simple. Some cells recognize the pathogen and send a signal to the immune system, and immune cells produce a potentially lifesaving antibody ...

Influenza hemagglutinin subunit vaccines are more effective and offer better cross protection against various influenza virus challenges when combined with a mucosal adjuvant that enhances the ...

Given the limited effectiveness of existing seasonal influenza vaccines against mismatched, evolved strains, (1) next-generation cross-protective influenza vaccines are urgently needed. Recombinant ...

A tiny insect called a midge spreads the disease, and the earliest known case dates back to 1955 in a forest worker near a ...