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Although the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine conferred moderate protection against symptomatic disease, hybrid immunity provided the strongest protection.

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The period of immunity is much shorter with omikron. Six months after infection with omikron, you are only 60 per cent protected. And after a year, immunity against the coronavirus is non-existent.

The Last of Us is a grim world ravaged by a fungal zombie-like outbreak. The key to overcoming it rests on one teenage girl.

Humoral immunity refers to antibody-mediated immune responses. Antibodies are produced by plasma cells and protect the host from infection in three main ways: by binding to pathogens to inhibit ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

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Although measles is seen as a contagious viral disease that passes quickly, it can also cause damage that leaves long-term ...

H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn that past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.