A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich has unlocked one of the most significant ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

Studies suggest that people who had seasonal flus or vaccinations have low antibody levels against H5N1 bird flu.

H5N1 avian influenza virus was first found infecting cattle in 2024, though its risk of adapting to infect and spread through ...

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 structure anymore.” Large animal die-offs could also throw whole ecosystems in ...

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 ...

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 ...