By: AS Fauchi and L Lambert 17 November 2010 In a review article appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, examine research under way to address the limitations of currently available influenza vaccines and develop more […]
The 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Virus: What Next?
By: David M. Morgan, et al; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 28 September 2010 Abstract: History suggests that the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus faces extinction unless it mutates to avoid already high global population immunity. The immune escape mechanisms potentially at its disposal include antigenic drift, antigenic shift via genetic reassortment, and […]
