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Cutting-Edge Flu Research Featured On
NIAID'S Web Site With flu season once again upon us, it's time to visit an
updated Focus
on the Flu, a web feature about cutting-edge influenza research supported by
the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Scientists fight influenza on many fronts. Some travel the
globe, monitoring the flu virus strains that circulate in the bustling live
poultry markets of the world. Others
work in laboratories, where they painstakingly piece together the atom-by-atom
structure of key flu virus proteins or work to develop new influenza vaccines
and drugs. Some scientists look to
the past for clues about how the flu virus evolves, while others think about the
future: when and where the next pandemic might strike. Visit Focus on the Flu and follow this exciting
research by reading lay-language summaries under the heading "Flu
Fighters." Those interested in more details can delve deeper via links to
the actual research papers and the scientists' own Web pages. Learn about how
the influenza virus works, about the difference between a cold and the flu, and
about new flu treatments and promising experimental vaccines.
Focus on the Flu also offers links to other related information
and organizations.
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