Suresh Mittal, Distinguished Professor of Virology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, presented “Universal Influenza Vaccine — An Aspiration or Reality?” at the Westwood Lecture Series on Jan. 28.

Abstract. Current seasonal influenza vaccines offer strain-specific protection, and thus, are less effective against mismatched strains. Besides, several zoonotic avian influenza viruses — e.g., H5N1, ...

The finding at a California duck farm is raising alarms among public health experts that bird flu could further mutate into ...