Influenza

New influenza findings from the United States and United Kingdom described

Published in Vaccine Weekly, January 17th, 2007

New findings reported from the United States and United Kingdom describe advances in influenza.

Study 1: Cotton rats are useful for the study of influenza virus pathogenesis.

According to recent research from the United States, "Influenza A virus continues to cause annual epidemics. The emergence of avian viruses in the human population poses a pandemic threat, and has highlighted the need for more effective influenza vaccines and antivirals.

"Development of such therapeutics would be enhanced by the use of a small-animal model that is permissive for replication of human influenza virus, and for which reagents are available to...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-01-17)

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