Flu vaccines have prevented millions of deaths, research shows
Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused ...
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The Evolving History of Influenza Viruses and Influenza Vaccines
The first inactivated influenza vaccine was monovalent (influenza ... viruses isolated during the 1900s); The subtype [16 possible hemagglutinin and 9 possible neuraminidase subtypes].
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Can AI help us create a universal flu vaccine? These researchers believe so
Our current influenza vaccines are strain-specific and often ... itself to receptors on the cell surface using a protein called hemagglutinin (HA). To a lesser extent, the virus can also use ...
Possible evidence of bird flu vaccinations driving virus evolution
A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and ...
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We’re getting closer to universal flu vaccine, say Janssen and Scripps
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 ...
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Mass Poultry Vaccination Could Prevent Bird Flu Spread, but Also Make Virus Evolve
Learn more about how a vaccine could help prevent the spread of the avian flu virus but may also cause the virus to evolve ...
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The Evolving History of Influenza Viruses and Influenza Vaccines
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 ...