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May 16, 2024
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May 15, 2024 A small number of New York City wild birds carry highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to a recent ...
May 2, 2024 Researchers have found that a brain disorder associated with flu (influenza-associated encephalopathy, or IAE) can be caused by the influenza virus entering the brain from the blood via endothelial cells. In these cells, the researchers observed ...
May 1, 2024 An experimental influenza vaccine carrying more than 80,000 variations of hemagglutinin antigens caused the immune system of mice and ferrets to respond more strongly to less variable portions of the virus. This is a big step forward in efforts at ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the ...
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Apr. 18, 2024 The annual influenza vaccine has become less effective on average over time. One reason may be reduced vaccine efficacy in people with obesity than ...
Mar. 26, 2024 Simply asking patients to get the flu vaccine, and combining it with helpful video and print messages, is enough to persuade many who visit emergency departments to roll up their sleeves, according ...
Mar. 25, 2024 Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we catch from them, according to a major new analysis of viral ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Researchers have identified new drug candidates for preventing and treating major respiratory viral ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Researchers have identified antibodies targeting a hard-to-spot region of the influenza virus, shedding light on the relatively unexplored 'dark side' of the neuraminidase (NA) protein head. The ...
Feb. 22, 2024 First large-scale analysis of optimal timing for flu shots finds October is the best month for children to get vaccinated against influenza. Study of 800,000 pediatrician visits leverages links ...
Feb. 26, 2024 A research team has developed a recombinant protein flu vaccine candidate. It utilizes a nanoliposome vaccine platform that underwent phase 2 and phase 3 clinical trials in South Korea and the ...
Feb. 14, 2024 Scientists have long thought of the fluid-filled sac around our lungs merely as a cushion from external damage. Turns out, it also houses potent virus-eating cells that rush into the lungs during flu ...
Feb. 13, 2024 Researchers have shed new light on how viral evolution, population immunity, and the co-circulation of other flu viruses shape seasonal flu ...
Feb. 6, 2024 Influenza A viruses with induced resistance to a new candidate antiviral drug were found to be impaired in cell culture and weakened in animals, ...
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Feb. 29, 2024 U.S. flu vaccines are likely to move from quadrivalent to trivalent due to a change in circulating influenza viruses, according to a new ...
Feb. 19, 2024 The prospect of the worrisome triple threat of COVID, RSV and flu was assuaged last year by the effectiveness of flu vaccines. Two recent studies from the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Feb. 5, 2024 Virus family history could help scientists identify which strains have potential to become the so-called Disease X that causes the next global ...
Jan. 18, 2024 An exhalation delivery system that uses a patient's own breath to carry the anti-inflammatory compound fluticasone (EDS-FLU) directly to the sinuses reduced chronic sinus infection (sinusitis) ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Imagine a vaccine that speeds up the production of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that spreads COVID-19. A research team has developed such a vaccine by using preexisting immunity to a ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Scientists have long known that some viruses and bacteria begin infections by latching first onto sugar molecules on the surfaces of cells lining the sinuses and throat of mammals, including humans. ...
Dec. 21, 2023 Researchers have identified a previously unrecognized class of antibodies -- immune system proteins that protect against disease -- that appear capable of neutralizing multiple forms of flu virus. ...
Dec. 15, 2023 New research comparing the viruses that cause the flu and COVID-19 shows that people hospitalized with seasonal influenza also can suffer long-term, negative health effects, especially involving ...
Nov. 13, 2023 Despite national medical guidelines supporting the use of antiviral medications in young children diagnosed with influenza, a new study reports an underuse of the ...
Nov. 13, 2023 Despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning this year will be potentially dangerous for respiratory illnesses, a third of Americans are not concerned about the threat, according to ...
Oct. 31, 2023 Recent preclinical results indicate novel next-generation vaccine candidates protect against multiple strains of influenza and last longer than vaccines currently in ...
Oct. 24, 2023 Researchers have developed a model that predicts the likely evolution of variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The model predicts which variants can escape human immunity, spread through the population ...
Oct. 10, 2023 New analysis of the remains of victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, contradicts the widespread belief the flu disproportionately impacted ...
Sep. 29, 2023 Researchers have developed an improved way to test potential vaccines against bird ...
Sep. 13, 2023 During a bout of influenza, B cells interact with other immune cells and then take different paths to defend the body. One path is the B cells that differentiate into lung-resident memory B cells, or ...
Sep. 11, 2023 A new Europe-wide study investigated the prevalence of protozoans, bacteria and viruses potentially pathogenic to humans and domestic animals in birds and bats in varying climatic conditions. The ...
Sep. 5, 2023 A new study has shown that a subtype of avian flu virus, endemic in poultry farms in China, is undergoing mutational changes, which could increase the risk of the disease being passed on to ...
Aug. 17, 2023 Scientists found that immune cells present in individuals long before influenza infection predict whether the illness is ...
Aug. 16, 2023 Researchers have found that molecules in vegetables like broccoli or cauliflower help to maintain a healthy barrier in the lung and ease ...
July 28, 2023 Scientists showed that fixed mutations within a viral population most likely stem from how easy it is to acquire that mutation (i.e., mutation accessibility) rather than just its ...
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