Flu News Friday: The Latest in Influenza Vaccines

February 21, 2020

Surveillance Update: 280,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths including 105 pediatric deaths so far this season from influenza

1. Toward a universal flu vaccine

Susanne Herold and Leif-Erik Sander, Science / February 21, 2020

2. Could targeting STING make a universal flu vaccine?

Laura Howes, Chemical and Engineering News / February 21, 2020

3. Pulmonary surfactant–biomimetic nanoparticles potentiate heterosubtypic influenza immunity

Wang et al, Science / February 21, 2020

4. This Year’s Flu Vaccine Stopped Many of the Worst Cases, CDC Says

Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg / February 20, 2020

5. Early prediction of antigenic transitions for influenza A/H3N2

Lauren A. Castro, Trevor Bedford, and Lauren Ancel Meyerset ;
PLOS / February 18, 2020

6. Next-generation influenza vaccines: opportunities and challenges

Wei et. al., Nature Reviews Drug Discovery / February 14, 2020

7. New pathogenic mechanism for influenza NS1 protein found

Jeff Hansen, University of Alabama at Birmingham News / February 14, 2020

8. Call for Manuscripts: Special Issue “Influenza Virus and Vaccine Development”

Ewan Plant and Hang Xie, Vaccines

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