The 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has caused a global health
emergency. The outbreak of this virus has raised a number of questions: What is SARS-CoV …

Influenza virus evolves rapidly to constantly escape from natural immunity. Most humoral
immune responses to influenza virus target the hemagglutinin (HA) glycoprotein, which is …

Epidemiological studies have observed that the seasonal peak incidence of influenza virus
infection is sometimes separate from the peak incidence of human respiratory syncytial virus …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections on mink farms
are increasingly observed in several countries, leading to the massive culling of animals on …

Ferrets are widely employed to study the pathogenicity, transmissibility, and tropism of
influenza viruses. However, inherent variations in inoculation methods, sampling schemes …

Influenza vaccines must be frequently reformulated to account for antigenic changes in the
viral envelope protein, hemagglutinin (HA). The rapid evolution of influenza virus under …

Background. Epidemiological studies suggest that, following infection with influenza virus,
there is a short period during which a host experiences a lower susceptibility to infection with …

The majority of currently circulating influenza A (H1N1) viruses are antigenically similar to
the virus that caused the 2009 influenza pandemic. However, antigenic variants are …

The effectiveness of influenza vaccines against circulating A (H1N1) pdm09 viruses was
modest for several seasons despite the absence of antigenic drift of hemagglutinin (HA), the …

We study the global spatio-temporal patterns of influenza dynamics. This is achieved by
analysing and modelling weekly laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A and B from 138 …