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Influenza

Research in action

Flu fighters

Published Sept 10, 2025

Experts at Johns Hopkins and across the country work together to better understand the behavior and characteristics of respiratory viruses, how our immune system responds to them, and how we can prevent serious illness

Two black and white dairy cows standing in a green pasture come extremely close to the camera lens

Q+A

What's happening with dairy cows and bird flu?

Published April 15, 2024

Though the virus is circulating in dairy cows, human exposure remains low, Johns Hopkins public health experts say

Q+A

What's in store for the upcoming respiratory virus season?

Published July 31, 2023

Johns Hopkins epidemiologist David Dowdy says vaccines and a preventive drug for RSV offer hope for a healthier fall and winter

Health care innovations

Simple spray could keep COVID away

Published Jan 12, 2023

Hopkins engineers have developed a method to prevent harmful viruses from entering the lungs, blocking the spread of COVID-19 and influenza with a nasal spray

Seasonal flu

Fast-spreading mutation helps common flu subtype escape human immune response

Published July 15, 2020

Unlike the novel coronavirus, which has been shown to mutate slowly, strains of influenza virus have acquired a mutation that blocks antibodies from binding to a key viral protein, making vaccine development more complex