Influenza continues to pose a significant global health burden, with seasonal outbreaks causing substantial morbidity and ...

Influenza continues to pose a significant global health burden, with seasonal outbreaks causing substantial morbidity and mortality. Current ...

Recent findings reveal H5N1 avian influenza is evolving, evading immunity, and increasing pandemic potential, highlighting ...

In a study of newborn piglets, infection with influenza A was associated with disruptions in the piglets' nasal and gut ...

For a long time, scientists depended on luck to find new proteins. In 1840, for example, Friedrich Ludwig Hünefeld, a German ...

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 very quickly led to the development of the first generation of live-attenuated vaccines. The first inactivated influenza vaccine was ...

The study, which was published in February in the journal Nature Microbiology, found that influenza A viral particles can actually adapt their shape to remain infectious and stick around longer ...

Article: E Partlow, et al. Influenza A virus rapidly adapts particle shape to environmental pressures. Nature Microbiology DOI: 10.1038/s41564-025-01925-9 (2025).

Many other viruses – such as measles, Ebola, Nipah, Hendra and respiratory syncytial virus – also incorporate a mixed-shape infection strategy, the researchers note. NIAID conducts and supports ...