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‘Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVID and flu
Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumour cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day trigger a relapse. Now, experiments in mice show that these rogue cells can be roused from their slumber by common respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19 or the flu.
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Could a Universal Flu Vaccine Replace Annual Flu and COVID Shots?
The HHS is betting $500 million on developing a universal flu vaccine that could protect against multiple flu strains.
Emergency room visits with influenza are now "very high" nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, in this week's update on the winter respiratory virus season.
Two types of influenza viruses are responsible for seasonal flu outbreaks: Influenza A and B. Influenza A accounts for around 75 percent of all cases and tends to cause more severe illness ...
Avian influenza A viruses are very different from human seasonal influenza viruses. They have the potential to cause a pandemic in people if they were to gain the ability to more easily infect ...
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Century-old virus sample helps decode deadliest influenza pandemic in history
This is the first time we’ve had access to an influenza genome from the 1918–1920 pandemic in Switzerland. It opens up new insights into the dynamics of how the virus adapt ...
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At the same time, recent CDC data shows that seasonal influenza A is ...
The mutations in the bird flu, or H5N1, viruses that caused severe infections in British Columbia and Louisiana both occurred in a protein on the surface of the virus that allows it to attach to ...
Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team has developed a method that can be used to study the interaction of viruses with host cells in ...
Influenza is a common respiratory virus that is categorized into four types: A, B, C and D. Type C only causes mild infections and type D is not believed to infect humans.
Here’s how it works. "The flu," or seasonal influenza, is caused by influenza viruses, like those pictured above. (Image credit: CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...
The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread. A new study also shows that an already approved drug could help strengthen immune defenses -- though ...
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