No mismatch between circulating flu strains and vaccine strains
Low influenza vaccine uptake in India despite high mortality rates; manufacturers scaling up production to meet growing ...
The Bird Flu Virus Is Mutating Fast – And Scientists Say Our Vaccines May Not Be Enough
H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...
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FDA Makes Recommendations for 2025-2026 Influenza Vaccines
The recommendations were made following a meeting that included experts from the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Defense.
As anti-vaccine disinformation takes hold, more Americans dying of the flu
Even as more people are dying from flu, the Trump administration has postponed vaccine planning for next fall's flu season.
World’s first bird flu case in sheep detected in UK
The world’s first case of avian influenza has been detected in sheep, and in the UK, Defra has confirmed. The H5N1 bird flu ...
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Influenza News
Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: ... Jan. 2, 2025 — Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1) remains a ...
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The antigenic landscape of N1 neuraminidase in human influenza A virus strains isolated between 2009 and 2020
Catani and colleagues provide data on antigenic properties of neuraminidase proteins of pandemic H1N1 and show that antigenic diversity of the neuraminidase from 2009 to 2020 largely falls into two ...
If bird flu jumps to humans, immunity from seasonal flu may offer some protection
Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...