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

Oropouche virus disease was a relatively rare illness for decades, lurking on the margins of tropical rainforests in the Caribbean and South America. Sporadic reports of an infection causing fevers, ...

In a study of newborn piglets, infection with influenza A was associated with disruptions in the piglets' nasal and gut microbiomes, and with potentially detrimental changes in gene activity in the ...

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape-to become either spheres or larger filaments-to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according to ...

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 ...

“We are working to understand what the important features of an antibody are that make it effective at neutralizing — blocking — the virus. As part of the team that in 2017 mapped the structure of a ...

Influenza A virus contains an eight-segmented negative-sense single-stranded RNA genome which encodes at least ten major viral proteins (PB2, PB1, PA/P3, HA, NP, NA, M1, M2, NS1, and NS2). Each RNA ...

A 1982 study found influenza A remained contagious up to 48 hours on hard plastic or stainless steel, while a 2008 publication found these viruses stayed infectious for up to three days on Swiss ...

The potential “tripledemic” of influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) infection continues to be a concern. Vaccines remain the best defense against COVID-19 and influenza, with ...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is changing over time. NIAID-RML, CC BY One of the most concerning features of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 is how it moves or changes over time during the evolution of the ...

Hilgenfeld and colleagues elucidated an early structure of the virus’s main protease, an enzyme that helps SARS-CoV-2 build its proteins (Science 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.abb3405), and Rao and ...