The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

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 ...

Moderna's flu vaccine candidate, mRNA-1010, shows 26.6% efficacy in a Phase 3 trial for adults 50+. Read more here.

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

The importance of global influenza surveillance using simple and rapid diagnostics has been frequently highlighted. For influenza type B, the need exists for discrimination between the two currently ...

Contained within this matrix shell is the viral RNA genome, which (for influenza A viruses) consists of eight single-stranded, negative-sense RNA segments (negative-sense refers to the genome ...

The letter, signed by 79 medical societies, expresses concern over recent federal immunization review policies and asks that ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

COVID-19 cases never fell to zero in India since the disease was detected, Naveen Kumar, Director, National Institute of Virology, Pune, said, adding, “We have now scaled-up surveillance and genome ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified 4,208 previously unannotated open reading frames (ORFs) across 679 human-associated viral genomes using a high-throughput method ...