The findings were striking. When fungal spore levels increased , cases of flu and COVID-19 rose shortly after. The connection ...

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

Moderna said on Monday its influenza vaccine was found to be 26.6% more effective than an approved annual flu shot from GSK ...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts have worried about people getting infected with the influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 at the same time, a disease sometimes called ...

The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK ...

FILE – Bottles of raw milk are displayed for sale at a store in Temecula, Calif., on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/JoNel Aleccia, file) — The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for ...

Researchers isolated the virus from a swab used to collect a sample from the eye of one of the infected workers. That virus — clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype B3.13 — was studied to determine how ...

The team produced viruses expressing 78 distinct hemagglutinin (HA) proteins from 2023-circulating flu viruses and recent vaccine strains, and tagged each one with a unique genetic ‘barcode’.

Using this approach, the researchers measured neutralization titers—a measurement of how much serum is needed to neutralize the virus—against the 78 flu variants using 150 serum samples, from ...

Published May 28 on the preprint server medRxiv, the non-peer-reviewed research was conducted by a team of UK scientists who studied the stability of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in ...