Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Flu virus' best friend: Low humidity
Yale researchers have pinpointed a key reason why people are more likely to get sick and even die from flu during winter months: low humidity.
May 13, 2019
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Medications
New approach could lead to a lifetime flu vaccine
If the virus that causes flu were an ice cream cone, then the yearly vaccine teaches the immune system to recognize just the scoop – chocolate one year, strawberry the next. As the virus changes each year, so too must the ...
Apr 29, 2019
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Medical research
Small molecule mimics broadly neutralizing antibodies to stop flu in mice
A team of researchers from the Netherlands, the U.S. and Belgium has found a small molecule that mimics the behavior of broadly neutralizing antibodies. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Vaccines fail to protect obese mice from severe influenza infections
A study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital found that obese mice are not protected against influenza infections by vaccines that include adjuvants, raising concerns about vaccine effectiveness in obese humans who ...
Aug 2, 2016
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Immunology
Study suggests immune response to flu causes death in older people, not the virus
A new Yale-led study suggests that death from influenza virus in older people may be primarily caused by a damaging immune response to flu and not by the virus itself. The insight could lead to novel strategies for combating ...
Apr 21, 2016
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Immunology
Precision immunization: NASA studies immune response to flu vaccine in space and on Earth
Every year, as influenza season - and flu shot season—rolls around, medical experts weigh in on just how effective it will be against that year's particular strain. What if that equation could take into account a person's ...
Dec 23, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Chance for advance flu warning in search-based tracking method
Harvard statisticians have devised a new method to track the flu via Internet search data, potentially providing public health officials and consumers alike with advance warning this flu season.
Nov 10, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Could flu someday be prevented without a vaccine?
Researchers have discovered a way to trigger a preventive response to a flu infection without any help from the usual players - the virus itself or interferon, a powerful infection fighter.
Aug 11, 2015
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Medical research
Scientists identify 'decoy' molecule that could help sharply reduce risk of flu death
The flu virus can be lethal. But what is often just as dangerous is the body's own reaction to the invader. This immune response consists of an inflammatory attack, meant to kill the virus. But if it gets too aggressive, ...
Jun 26, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists pinpoint mutations responsible for ineffective 2014-2015 flu vaccine
Viruses like influenza have the ability to mutate over time, and given that the flu vaccines administered during the 2014-2015 season were largely ineffective at preventing the spread of the flu, it appears the virus that ...
Jun 25, 2015
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