Tag Archives: influenza
Vaccinate the kids to protect the “herd”
Vaccinating young children and adolescents against influenza protects unvaccinated individuals in the wider community (the herd immunity), show results from a clinical trial conducted in rural communities in Canada and published free in the journal JAMA. “Our findings … support … Continue reading
Filed under Infectious Disease, Medicine, Public Health, Vaccine
Host factors help influenza virus replication
German researchers have identified hundreds of host cell genes that affect influenza A virus replication. The work by Alexander Karlas and colleagues and published online in the journal Nature could help identify new drug targets which could be useful against … Continue reading
Filed under Infectious Disease, Microbiology
