Influenza Proteins Tilt and Wave in ‘Breath-like’ Motions
The flu virus sickens people by sneaking past their immune defenses, entering cells and then replicating. Hundreds of hemagglutinin (HA) ...
Tag: H1N1
New Universal Flu Vaccine Offers Broad Protection Against Influenza A Virus Infections
A new universal flu vaccine constructed with key parts of the influenza virus offers broad cross protection against different strains ...
Mitigating Flu and Other Respiratory Viruses for Children in Indoor Environments
In January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidance for reducing SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) transmission in schools ...
Stopping Lethal Lung Damage from Influenza: MG53 Protein Shows Promise in Animal Models
The raging lung inflammation that can contribute to death from the flu can be stopped in its tracks by a ...
Understanding Evolutionary Dynamics of Influenza to Inform and Improve Vaccine Strain Selection
GRANT FUNDING OPPORTUNITY The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is seeking proposals to support research to improve ...
Many Flu Strains May Be Capable of Mutating to Escape Universal-Vaccine Antibodies
Scripps Research study suggests universal flu vaccine may be far more challenging than expected Some common strains of influenza have ...
Characterising Viable H1N1 Virus from Air Exhaled Infected Ferrets
The novel methodology and findings described here highlight the fate of infectious virus outside the respiratory tract as an important ...
Hundreds Dead as Yemen Flu Outbreak Spreads
The World Health Organization (WHO) sought to allay fears about the presence of swine flu in Yemen after the war-torn ...
2009 Pandemic Flu Vaccine Strategy Worked, But Effectiveness Varied By Age Group
A comprehensive review led by academics at The University of Nottingham has found that vaccines are successful in preventing pandemic ...
CDC Director to Keynote Pandemic Preparedness Seminar
Credit: Shutterstock The California Life Sciences Association (CLSA) will host its “Afternoon with Thought Leaders” program in La Jolla, Calif. ...
Researchers Discover 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic Originated in Mexico
The 2009 swine H1N1 flu pandemic -- responsible for more than 17,000 deaths worldwide -- originated in pigs from a ...
Novel Swine Flu Viruses in Pigs and Humans
The wide diversity of flu in pigs across multiple continents, mostly introduced from humans, highlights the significant potential of new ...
Unraveling the Mystery of Flu Vaccine Link to Narcolepsy
An international team of researchers has found some of the first solid evidence why a flu vaccine widely deployed during ...
Airport Screening for Viruses Misses Half of Infected Travelers
In the past decade, the H1N1 virus and Ebola are just two of the diseases whose spread was spurred by ...
Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research
The National Academies Press has published Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research, a summary of a two-day public symposia ...
Guelph Researchers Create Point-of-Need Avian Flu Diagnostic
University of Guelph researchers have devised a simple, portable and real-time tool to analyze chickens and other farm birds for ...
Why Some Adults Were More Susceptible To Last Year’s Flu
A team of scientists has identified a possible explanation for why middle-aged adults were hit especially hard by the H1N1 ...
Avoiding Complacency When Assessing Pandemic Threat
As our ability to assess the pandemic risk from strains of influenza virus increases with the latest scientific developments, we ...
Patent Approved for New Pandemic Flu Test
The federal government has awarded a patent to the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Northern Arizona University (NAU) for ...
WSU Flu Outbreak Provides Rare Study Material
Five years ago this month, one of the first U.S. outbreaks of the H1N1 virus swept through the Washington State ...
