Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

HKUMed has achieved a significant breakthrough in developing needle-free, live-attenuated influenza vaccines with broad protection against human and avian virus subtypes.

The antigenic evolution of human influenza viruses is typically determined in hemagglutination inhibition tests, which captures the antigenic drift of the viral hemagglutinin (HA) 8, 9. The ...