Obesity is associated with a wide range of complications, including type 2 diabetes mellitus,
cardiovascular disease, hypertension and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Obesity also …

In recent times, the emergence of viral infections, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the
monkeypox virus, and, most recently, the Langya virus, has highlighted the devastating …

Visceral adiposity is a risk factor for severe COVID-19, and a link between adipose tissue
infection and disease progression has been proposed. Here we demonstrate that SARS …

Due to the adverse effects of obesity on host immunity, this study investigated the
effectiveness of COVID‐19 vaccines (BNT162b2, ChAdOx‐nCov‐2019, and mRNA‐1273) in …

Respiratory viral infections such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) and influenza A virus (IAV) trigger distinct clinical outcomes defined by immunity …

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates that obesity alone, independent of comorbidities, is
a significant risk factor for severe outcomes from infection. This susceptibility mirrors a …

Influenza A viruses cause severe respiratory illnesses in humans and animals. Overreaction
of the innate immune response to influenza virus infection results in hypercytokinemia …

Background Obesity is a worldwide epidemic and is considered a risk factor of severe
manifestation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The pathogenicity of severe acute …

Vaccine efficacy determined within the controlled environment of a clinical trial is usually
substantially greater than real-world vaccine effectiveness. Typically, this results from …

Programmed cell death is a critical host defence strategy during viral infection. Neighbouring
cells deal with this death in distinct ways depending on how the infected cell dies. While …