Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered that a virus commonly found in dogs may serve as the foundation for the next great breakthrough in human vaccine development. Althoug... Read more
A triple reassortment strain of an H1N2 virus, with genes from avian, swine and human flu, has been shown to jump easily via air to mammals. The emergence of the H1N1 influenza virus that le... Read more
Scientists in the United States have identified a new strain of influenza in harbour seals that could potentially impact human and animal health. The H3N8 flu has been associated with the de... Read more
“This is indeed an exciting finding in the flu field,” I could write the entire genome of a flu virus in around 100 tweets. It is just 14,000 letters long; for comparison, our genome has ove... Read more