Influenza hemagglutinin subunit vaccines are more effective and offer better cross protection against various influenza virus ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus has infected birds and mammals around the world. As of June 2025, 70 people have been infected, and 1 person has died in the United States.

What’s the difference between influenza A and influenza B, and does it matter which you catch? By Knvul Sheikh Each fall and winter, the flu emerges as a formidable force, spreading through the ...

Influenza is a common respiratory virus that is categorized into four types: A, B, C and D. Type C only causes mild infections and type D is not believed to infect humans.

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At the same time, recent CDC data shows that seasonal influenza A is rising ...

Shahriar, who recently earned his PhD in Low’s laboratory, said EV25 reduces viral loads of advanced-stage influenza in two ways. “It binds and inhibits viral neuraminidase expressed on both free ...

The virus of swine influenza, described by Shope, has a close antigenic relationship with the influenza virus, and induces a disease in ferrets very like that produced with the influenza virus.

Maria Kaukab Osman et al, The bat influenza A virus subtype H18N11 induces nanoscale MHCII clustering upon host cell attachment, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58834-y.

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells ...