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Tag Archives: Influenza
Research shows boosting natural flu resistance may counter flu mutations
Tweet Researchers at Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced on Thursday that handling virus mutations by improving drugs that boost the body’s natural flu resistance may be more effective than creating unique vaccines for each mutation. Recent scares with mutated influenza … Read More »
NIAID scientists develop novel approach for flu vaccination
Tweet A new approach to immunize against influenza could offer a more potent immune response and broader protection than currently licensed seasonal influenza vaccines, according to a recent study published in Nature. Scientists with the U.S. National Institute of Allergy … Read More »
iBio develops vaccine candidate for H7N9 influenza virus
TweetiBio, Inc., a Newark, Delaware-based biotechnology company, announced on Wednesday the production of a vaccine candidate for the newly emerged H7N9 influenza virus by an independent third-party laboratory using iBio’s iBioLaunch platform. The laboratory achieved the validation milestone for the … Read More »
WHO Director-General Chan discusses H7N9, novel coronavirus
Tweet World health agencies must remain vigilant and work together to combat the H7N9 avian influenza virus and the novel coronavirus, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said on Monday. Chan made the statement during the 66th World Health Assembly in Geneva. … Read More »
Expert doubts CDC promotion of influenza vaccine
TweetPeter Doshi, a postdoctoral fellow at John Hopkins University School of Medicine, said on Thursday that while the CDC has said the influenza vaccine is the best option for the public, other data points otherwise. The CDC promotes influenza vaccines … Read More »
A*STAR and Cytos begin landmark influenza clinical trial in Singapore
Tweet The Singapore-based Agency for Science, Technology and Research and the Switzerland-based Cytos Biotechnology AG announced on Friday that the first healthy volunteer received an H1N1 influenza vaccine dose for a Phase I clinical trial. The vaccine candidate, which is … Read More »
Researchers publish new methods to generate flu vaccines
Tweet A team of researchers including both government agencies and pharmaceutical companies recently published the discovery of new methods for the rapid generation of influenza vaccines through synthetic genomics and technologies. The research team consisted of international researchers from the … Read More »
Canada will not perform H7N9 vaccine studies
TweetCanada announced on May 9 that it has no plans to ask its pandemic flu vaccine manufacturers to conduct test studies on their trial batches of H7N9 vaccines. The H7N9 virus is a strain of avian flu that is responsible … Read More »