An influenza vaccine administered through the nose and constructed with nanoparticles that enhance immune response offers strong protection against different influenza virus strains, according to researchers in the Institute ...
Jan 29, 2022
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In the first week of 2022, news headlines featured references to something called "flurona," and discussion of "flurona" quickly spread across social media.
Jan 10, 2022
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(HealthDay)—This season's flu vaccine may do little to prevent infection with the main circulating virus strain because the strain has changed since the vaccine was developed, a new study suggests.
Dec 17, 2021
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New research at the University of Chicago has found differences in immune pathway activation to influenza infection between individuals of European and African genetic ancestry. Many of the genes that were associated with ...
Nov 25, 2021
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Accurately assessing the exposure of a population to a particular virus is difficult because the tools for doing so do not account for the fact that many viruses comprise multiple circulating strains, or the fact that people ...
Nov 24, 2021
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The flu season is upon us.
Nov 16, 2021
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For the second straight year, flu season is emerging against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the number of flu cases was relatively low last year, experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine say that this year, it could ...
Nov 12, 2021
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The first known H10 avian influenza virus (AIV) was isolated from chicken in Germany in 1949 and has undergone multiple reassortment events during decades of circulation. Many H10-subtype AIVs, including H10N1, H10N2, H10N3, ...
Oct 21, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Obese people have a tougher time fighting COVID-19, even if they have a milder form of the virus, a new study finds.
Oct 20, 2021
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