A bird flu virus that has often been ignored because it mostly causes minor disease in birds has the potential to cause a human pandemic, says a team that has tracked how the H9N2 virus has become ...

While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness. Influenza has to latch onto a receptor on the surface of a human cell so it can ...

Like these substances, influenza viruses must also attach to molecules on the cell surface. The dynamics are like surfing on the surface of the cell: the virus scans the surface, attaching to a ...

Read full article: How are flu vaccines made? Flu vaccines are crucial tools in protecting public health by reducing the risk of influenza illness and its complications. They are produced annually to ...

Have you ever wondered why you have to get a flu shot every year, but some vaccines are one-and-done? It all has to do with how and how fast viruses evolve - and that depends on mutation rates.

Influenza viruses are common, and the seasonal flu tends to infect many people every year. Influenza A viruses are the most common kind of human influenza virus, and they usually infect cells in the ...

For the first time, researchers have observed live and in high resolution how influenza (“flu”) viruses infect living cells. This was possible thanks to a new microscopy technique, developed at ETH ...