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Workers Do Not Quit Due to Mandatory Flu Shot
June 11, 2013 — In its fourth year with 99 percent compliance, Loyola University Health System's mandatory flu shot program is the subject of a new study presented at an infectious disease ... > full story -
Flu Vaccines Aimed at Younger Populations Could Break Annual Transmission Cycle
June 11, 2013 — The value of vaccinating more children and young adults for influenza is being seriously underestimated. A new report suggests heavier emphasis on vaccinating those groups might save thousands of ... > full story -
Duck Genome Provides New Insight Into Fighting Bird Flu
June 9, 2013 — The duck genome consortium has completed the genome sequencing and analysis of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos), one principal natural host of influenza A viruses, which caused a new epidemic in China ... > full story -
Studies Showing How Bird Flu Viruses Could Adapt to Humans Offer Surveillance and Vaccine Strategies
June 6, 2013 — Bird flu viruses are potentially highly lethal and pose a global threat, but relatively little is known about why certain strains spread more easily to humans than others. Two studies identify ... > full story -
No Benefit of Double Dose Antiviral Drug for Severe Influenza, Study Suggests
May 30, 2013 — There are no virological or clinical benefits of giving double doses of the antiviral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu) to patients admitted to hospital with severe influenza, finds a large study from South ... > full story -
Interleukin-22 Protects Against Post-Influenza Bacterial Superinfection
May 30, 2013 — Researchers have shown in a mouse model that interleukin-22 protects against bacterial superinfections that can arise following ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Gives Mice Broad Protection to Pandemic Flu Strains, Including 1918 Flu
May 29, 2013 — Researchers have developed a new gene therapy to thwart a potential influenza pandemic. They demonstrated that a single dose of an adeno-associated virus expressing a broadly neutralizing flu ... > full story -
New Flu Strains Prompt Review of Current Research, Call to Redouble Flu Fight
May 29, 2013 — New flu strains prompt review of current research and a call to redouble the flu ... > full story -
Novel Disease in Songbirds Demonstrates Evolution in the Blink of an Eye
May 28, 2013 — A novel disease in songbirds has rapidly evolved to become more harmful to its host on at least two separate occasions in just two decades, according to a new study. The research provides a real-life ... > full story -
Ferrets, Pigs Susceptible to H7N9 Avian Influenza Virus
May 23, 2013 — Chinese and US scientists have used a virus isolated from a person who died from H7N9 avian influenza infection to determine whether the virus could infect and be transmitted between ferrets. Ferrets ... > full story
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