September 17, 2024 by La Jolla Institute for Immunology Credit: CC0 Public DomainResearch led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) suggests that many people already have immune cells on “stand by” to fight the H5N1 virus, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza. The H5N1 “bird flu” virus emerged in 2022 and...
by Keila DePape, McGill University a, The mouse model of BCG vaccination and IAV infection. b,c, Morbidity and mortality of mice infected with the lethal dose of PR8 (120 PFUs; n = 9–10). d, Viral load at various timepoints after infection with a sublethal dose of IAV-PR8 (50 PFUs; n = 4–8). e, Confocal microscopy of lung section infected with...
by LaTina Emerson, Georgia State University Therapeutic treatment of lethal CDV infection in ferrets. Ferrets were infected with a lethal challenge of CDV and treated with GHP-88309, ERDRP-0519, or therapeutic vaccination. a Schematic of the study design. Ferrets were infected with wild-type recCDV-5804p and monitored for 6 weeks. Symbols in the different boxes show clinical presentation...
A man carriers a child walk out from a crowded holding room of a children’s hospital in Beijing on Oct. 30, 2023. A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus, the...
by Kimberly Cataudella, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainWe’ve just entered flu season, which typically runs from September to March, and doctors recommend getting vaccinated within this time frame to protect against severe cases of the illness. The same goes for protecting against COVID and RSV, which can be deadly diseases...
by McMaster University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Flu shots can save the lives of people with cardiovascular disease by reducing cardiac complications as well as preventing influenza. An international study led by McMaster University researchers and published in The Lancet Global Health has found that influenza vaccines greatly reduce both pneumonia and cardiovascular complications in people with heart failure. “If...
by NYU Langone Health Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Blocking the action of calcium signals in immune cells suppresses the most common form of asthma, but without compromising the body’s defenses against flu viruses, a new study finds. Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, experiments showed that removing the gene for a calcium channel—specifically...
by LAURAN NEERGAARD A man receives a flu shot in Brattleboro, Vt., on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. Doctors have a message for vaccine-weary Americans: Don’t skip your flu shot this fall 2022. And for the first time, seniors are urged to get a special extra-strength kind. Credit: Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP, File Doctors...
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, we thought the coronavirus was everywhere—stuck to our cellphone screens, smeared on our mail, dangling from doorknobs, even clinging to our cereal boxes. But it wasn’t. Despite public health guidance suggesting surfaces be disinfected to stop the spread of COVID-19, the virus wasn’t significantly transmitted through inanimate surfaces...
By Carissa Wong A coloured scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus (purple) NIAID / NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Being infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus may give some protection against flu. Martin Michaelis at the University of Kent in the UK and his colleagues collected...
