The Upcoming Flu Season: What You Need to Know Now

New vaccine and regulations to impact patient care, prompt early vaccination.

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New Flu Strains Prompt Review of Current Research, Call to Redouble Flu Fight

New flu strains prompt review of current research and a call to redouble the flu fight. Review article appears in online edition of American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

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H7N9 Animal Model Looks at Transmission of H7N9 Influenza Virus

An international team of scientists has proved that the H7N9 influenza virus is efficiently transmitted when animals are in close contact -- defined in the study as touching, coughing and the exchange of bodily fluids.

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Expert on Animal to Human Diseases: Drivers of Disease Outbreaks Linked to Agricultural and Environmental Change

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New Test for H7N9 Bird Flu in China May Help Slow Outbreak, Prevent Pandemic

Breaking research appearing online today in Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, demonstrates that a recently developed diagnostic test can detect the new strain of influenza (H7N9) currently causing an outbreak in China.

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St. Jude Experts Available to Discuss H7N9 Avian Influenza

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New Study Offers Insight on Pandemic Flu

Pandemic flu continues to threaten public health, especially in the wake of the recent emergence of an H7N9 low pathogenic avian influenza strain in humans.

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Research Reveals Protective Properties of Influenza Vaccines

Collaborating scientists from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified an important mechanism for stimulating protective immune responses following seasonal influenza vaccinations. The study was published in Science Translational Medicine, a journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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Two-Pronged Immune Cell Approach Could Lead to a Universal Shot Against the Flu

Influenza virus-specific CD8+ T cells or virus-specific non-neutralizing antibodies are each relatively ineffective at conferring protective immunity alone. But, when combined, the virus-specific CD8 T cells and non-neutralizing antibodies cooperatively elicit robust protective immunity.

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Outbreaks, Epidemics and Pandemics—What You Need to Know

Each month, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) issues consumer tips on infection prevention. The February 2013 feature is titled "Outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics—what you need to know."

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