After Australia’s tough flu season, some experts predict that the U.S. is in for a few difficult months. What does that mean for you?
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By mid-August, the 2017 year had recorded more flu notifications across Australia than the previous five years. So why is the flu season so bad this time around?
New genetic technologies are letting us look at flu evolution right where it starts: within individual people, while they’re sick.
This antivirus software protects health, not computers. Researchers are beginning to combat deadly infections using computer-generated antiviral proteins – a valuable tool to fight a future pandemic.
Australia needs to think about who gets the flu vaccine first before the next pandemic strikes and supplies run low.
As we head towards flu season, many people are wondering if it’s worth getting vaccinated against influenza and if so, when. Here’s what you need to know.
How is it the flu has managed to stay around for so long, and why haven’t we beaten it yet?
Most immunisation campaigns continue to primarily focus on infants and children, but almost 4 million Australian adults are not vaccinated against preventable diseases.
Flu virus mutates so quickly that one year’s vaccine won’t work on the next year’s common strains. But a new way to create vaccines, called ‘rational design,’ might pave the way for more lasting solutions.
Researchers are learning how HIV hides from the immune system to develop a new generation of vaccines for seemingly unrelated diseases, like the flu.
Public health experts enlist the molecular biology tools that create genetically modified organisms – as well as the GMOs themselves – in the fight against emerging infectious diseases.
The flu vaccine – which prevents one from getting influenza – changes every year, because it is based on the strains of the virus that presented in the previous year.
While studies suggests that cholesterol-lowering statins can make the flu shot less effective, the vaccine remains the best available tool for reducing flu-related complications and death.
What flu season has in store: mostly H1N1 in the north and a three-way split between H1N1, H3N2 and influenza B in the south.
If people are avoiding the flu jab because last year’s protection wasn’t great, that would be a mistake.
Vaccines have always had potential side effects but they remain our best defence against far more dangerous infectious diseases.
During World War II the US military forged partnerships with industry and academia that translated laboratory findings into working products at an unprecedented pace.
It’s that time of year again when scientists and doctors make predictions about the impending flu season and we must decide whether to go out and get the flu vaccine.
Research shows that what’s most effective is when health-care providers tailor the conversation to address parents’ particular concerns.
Kids are flu super spreaders, which is why locating vaccination programs in schools can protect whole communities.
Top contributors
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Deputy Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza
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Associate Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
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Professor Emerita of Biology, Indiana University
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Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Head: Zoonotic, Arbo and Respiratory Virus Programme, Professor, Department Medical Virology, University of Pretoria
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Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Senior Lecturer; MD, Victoria University
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Professor of Virology, Imperial College London
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical & Physical Biology, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University
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Ph.D. Student in Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
