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Sep 24, 2015 03:32 PM EDT

Flu Viruses Spread with the Help of Your Soft Palate

Scientists have found that the soft palate, which is the soft tissue at the back of the roof of your mouth, plays a key role in viruses' ability to travel through the air from one person to another.

Jun 12, 2014 09:01 AM EDT

Avian Influenza Viruses May Have the Genetic Ingredients for a Pandemic: 1918-Like Outbreak

A certain virus may just have pandemic potential. Scientists have found that circulating avian influenza viruses contain all of the genetic ingredients necessary to underpin the emergence of a virus similar to the deadly 1918 influenza virus.

May 31, 2013 05:28 PM EDT

Gene Therapy Gives Mice Broad Protection to Many Pandemic Flu Strains

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania have developed a new gene therapy to thwart a potential influenza pandemic.