Tagged: flu

We conducted a hospital-based test-negative study in Hong Kong to estimate influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the winter of 2017/18. The interim analysis included data on 1,078 children admitted between 4 December 2017 and...

A new method of manufacturing HIV vaccines holds the promise of speeding up the process and lowering the cost. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Manufacturing Breakthrough Could Set Stage for More HIV...

Japan has given fast-tracked consent for a pioneering 1-dose, anti-viral therapy said to stop replication of the influenza virus in th See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Fresh Japanese drug halts influenza virus...

AbstractBackground. Nonavalent (9v) human papilloma virus vaccine targets high-risk (HR)-HPV types 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, 58, and low-risk 6, 11. We examined See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection worldwide and can lead to the development of genital warts, and cancer See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Cross-sectional associations between psychological traits,...

The number of states reporting high patient traffic for the flu also dropped, to 39 from 43. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Nasty flu season showing signs of winding down in US...

Researchers discovered four viruses that normally infect fish, but which created a form of viral insulin that operated on human and mouse cells.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Viral...

A single mutation in an immunity gene may explain why bats can carry deadly viruses and not get sick.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Mutation 'gives bats edge over...

Patients value anticancer therapies that provide durable clinical responses; immune-checkpoint inhibitors can provide such benefit for patients with some advanced-stage malignancies, albeit only for a minority of those treated. Modern oncology value frameworks have...

Vampire bats are probably not the cuddliest of critters, considering nearly their entire food source consists of blood. There are three types of bats who solely drink blood, the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), the hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla...