'Prime-Boost' Strategy Might Overcome Avian Flu Vaccine Shortage

Pitt scientists receive $3.6M to test vaccine against deadliest ...
(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research have been awarded...

Jump in measles outbreaks worries health officials
ATLANTA (AP) -- The number of measles cases in the U.S. is at its highest level since 1997, and nearly half of those involve children whose parents...

1918 Pandemic Leaves Immune Mark 90 Years Later
NASHVILLE (MedPage Today) -- Ninety years after the 1918 flu pandemic, those still alive who recall exposure to the virus, or family stories of it,...

1918 flu antibodies resurrected from elderly survivors
(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Ninety years after the sweeping destruction of the 1918 flu pandemic, researchers at Monroe Carell Jr....

Survivors of 1918 flu pandemic protected with a lifetime immunit...
(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) New research has discovered that infection and natural exposure to the 1918 influenza...