Moderna’s combined Covid and flu shot outperformed the existing standalone vaccines for both viruses, according to the ...

NIH program to make vaccines against pathogens that can trigger pandemics uses approach pioneered in last century ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

Scientist and doctors from around the world are raising warning flags about the bird flu that has decimated poultry ...

Public health experts share concerns that the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could turn into a pandemic. What to know after Louisiana ...

Flu viruses are wily because they mutate from season ... virus that’s been chemically tweaked so it can’t infect human cells. The project comes from work being driven by Dr. Matthew Memoli ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

It takes several hours for the results of a polymerase chain reaction test, which “detects genetic material from a pathogen ...

Avian influenza has been rampaging in wild birds around the world since late 2021. It can be considered widespread in wild ...

While the risk of contracting and dying from the H5N1 avian flu remains low for humans, researchers continue to hunt for ...

And pathogenesis of flu in birds, in chickens is really ... is attached to the surface of the virus, helping it get into cells. A switch from glutamine to leucinein resulting from just one ...

which prevents them from being able to copy themselves in the body and infect cells. The inactivated viruses are then purified and mixed into a shot or nasal spray. The US used to use flu vaccines ...