"Influenza remains an incredibly dangerous risk to global health," said Taia Wang, MD, Ph.D., associate professor of ...

Viruses are the fastest-evolving biological entity on earth. This fact explains why we need flu shots every year: Seasonal ...

Another tool in an influenza virus’s kit is something known as reassortment. A flu virus’s genetic material is made up of ...

Hope is on the horizon for needle-phobic patients as Griffith University researchers have created a new influenza vaccine ...

Current nomenclature for influenza viruses (WHO 1980 ... and culture-adapted strains (for their replication properties). Since 1973, the WHO issues recommendations for the composition of influenza ...

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Influenza A can happen when the virus infects the tissues in your upper respiratory tract (sinuses, mouth, and throat) or your lower respiratory tract (lungs). The virus can replicate within these ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

“By reassorting with seasonal influenza viruses, [H5N1] could get a replication machinery that just does much better in human cells,’’ said Krammer, who teaches at Mount Sinai’s Icahn ...

The detection of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) in a pig on an Oregon farm has again raised concerns specifically among ...

Influenza viruses cause tens of millions of illnesses and thousands of deaths in the United States each year. There are two players every flu season: influenza Type A and Type B. Influenza A tends ...

Study shows bovine H5N1 influenza from infected worker transmissible and lethal in animal models: Bethesda, Maryland Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 10:00 Hrs [IST] A highly pathogen ...