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.

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

Avian influenza, commonly termed “bird flu”, is caused by the avian influenza virus A. This virus is usually found in wild ...

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, ...

H9N2 is known to circulate in poultry across parts of Asia ... Since its inception in 2016, CARB-X has supported 107 early-stage antibiotic, diagnostic, and vaccine projects in 13 countries.

Sure, there are some topics that seem to lend themselves appropriately to opinion pages. Vaccines, however, which have prevented 6 million deaths every year worldwide and have fundamentally ...

There is no antiviral treatment for the miserable but thankfully short-lived illness, and no vaccine—yet. But scientists at Moderna are in the late stages of testing what could be the first such ...

Babies are supposed to receive vaccines that protect against about 15 different infectious diseases. Most require more than one dose, which amounts to nearly 30 jabs by age two. Parents may be ...

Federal funding for COVID-19 vaccines will stop this year and the provinces and territories will be responsible for buying them, as well as determining the timing of the vaccinations, the Public ...

Covid vaccines saved lives. Lots of them. Research by the World Health Organization (WHO) now puts the number at 475,000 in the UK with many more kept out of hospital or off a ventilator.