This new vaccine approach, described May 1 in the journal Science Translational Medicine, is part of a 5-year-old effort to develop a longer-lasting universal flu vaccine that would be able to foil ...

If the influenza virus infecting cattle workers starts a pandemic, help in the form of a vaccine is months away ...

There is an RSV vaccine the CDC is recommending for adults over the age of 60 and for pregnant women. We could be close to a universal flu vaccine that would protect against all strains of the virus.

The quest for a universal flu vaccine has been a long and challenging journey for scientists. Each year, millions of people ...

A universal flu vaccine could help avoid the variability in effectiveness seen with current seasonal jabs, which is generally around 60%, but can fall to as low as 10% if health authorities and ...

"This study shows that we're moving in the right direction for a universal flu vaccine," said Ian Wilson, Hansen Professor of Structural Biology and chair of the Department of Integrative ...

Saint Louis University is among four federally-funded vaccine research centers studying an investigational universal influenza vaccine intended to protect against multiple strains of the virus. The ...

Flu mutates and the current annual jab is ... "All of this implies the potential for an easily and rapidly constructed universal vaccine that could be of great use in the event of a pandemic ...

The vaccine released for the 2021 flu season, for instance, was found to be only around 14% effective (a universal flu vaccine is in the works, but is not yet ready for mass use). So while getting ...

OPINION: Avian flu, once limited to birds, is adapting to infect mammals, raising concerns about a new pandemic risk. With ...

So, targeting the stem instead of the head could be the right path toward a universal flu vaccine. The vaccine used in the Nature study used nanoparticles from swine flu to latch onto the stem of ...

Universal immunization is the best way to protect everybody ... Healthy individuals 6 months of age or older can receive the flu shot. Individuals over the age of 65 should get the higher dose ...