The United States is experiencing its most severe flu season in more than a decade, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

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The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...

In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced empty shelves in their grocery stores. The escalating threat of avian ...

To understand how to improve influenza vaccines we must take into account the variety of factors that result in suboptimal and variable effectiveness including antigenic drift of circulating ...

Influenza is one of the most unpredictable of diseases. Each year, the virus mutates slightly in a process called antigenic drift. The greater the mutation, the less likely that your immune system ...

Influenza is one of the most unpredictable of diseases. Each year, the virus mutates slightly in a process called antigenic drift. The greater the mutation, the less likely that your immune system ...

Usually such mutations are minor, resulting in a process called antigenic drift. Even minor changes in the virus’s make-up, however, mean that new vaccines must be developed to combat it.

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 very quickly led to the development of the first generation of live-attenuated vaccines. The first inactivated influenza vaccine was ...