Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused ...

A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and ...

Learn more about how a vaccine could help prevent the spread of the avian flu virus but may also cause the virus to evolve ...

Recent history makes clear that microbiological disasters can strike anytime. But a longer history should remind us of the ...

The first inactivated influenza vaccine was monovalent (influenza ... viruses isolated during the 1900s); The subtype [16 possible hemagglutinin and 9 possible neuraminidase subtypes].

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers wrote.

The H5N1 virus has a ways to go before it can successfully jump to humans but that it doesn’t reduce the threat it poses.

The first research programs attempting to develop an inactivated influenza vaccine, outside of the ... during the 1900s); The subtype [16 possible hemagglutinin and 9 possible neuraminidase ...

The partnership between the pharma company's vaccine researchers in Leiden ... A protein on the surface of influenza, called hemagglutinin (HA) is well known to researchers in the field as ...

Large-scale poultry vaccinations may be driving bird flu evolution, according to a concerning new international study.

A study published in Scientific Advances examines the impact of mass vaccination of poultry against H5 subtypes of avian influenza virus (AIV) on the spread of the virus, with an acknowledgment that ...