A seasonal flu virus suddenly mutated in the summer; it appears to evade some of our immunity; has kick-started a flu season ...

A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population. The work, published today as a Reviewed ...

America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other ...

A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic - pdm09 - shows that the virus has passed from humans to swine about 370 times since 2009, and subsequent circulation in ...

Honglei Sun, Yihong Xiao, Jiyu Liu, Dayan Wang, Fangtao Li, Chenxi Wang, Chong Li, Junda Zhu, Jingwei Song, Haoran Sun, Zhimin Jiang, Litao Liu, Xin Zhang, Kai Wei ...

New research reveals a promising approach to developing a universal influenza vaccine -- a so-called 'one and done' vaccine that confers lifetime immunity against an evolving virus. The study tested a ...

According to BBC reporting, experts in the U.K. predict the country will have a severe flu season, too, based on an early ...

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