With the rising prevalence of obesity has come an increasing awareness of its impact on
communicable disease. As a consequence of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus pandemic …

Despite decades of surveillance and pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions,
seasonal influenza viruses continue to cause epidemics around the world each year. The …

Zoonotic pandemics, such as that caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2), can follow the spillover of animal viruses into highly susceptible human …

Annual epidemics of seasonal influenza cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, high levels
of morbidity, and substantial economic loss. Yet, global influenza circulation has been …

Aims Analyze the relationship between obesity and influenza. Methods Basal hormone
milieu, defective response of both innate and adaptive immune system and sedentariness …

We describe a case of chronic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a patient with
lymphoma and associated B-cell immunodeficiency. Viral cultures and sequence analysis …

Antibodies are a potential therapy for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), but the risk of the virus evolving to escape them remains unclear. Here we …

Seasonal influenza viruses cause recurring global epidemics by continually evolving to
escape host immunity. The viral constraints and host immune responses that limit and drive …

Influenza epidemics vary in intensity from year to year, driven by climatic conditions and by
viral antigenic evolution. However, important spatial variation remains unexplained. Here we …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the agent causing the
COVID-19 pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 B. 1.1. 7 (Alpha), a WHO variant of concern first …