The study has fueled vaccine skepticism, but experts stressed that the flu shot does not cause the flu, because it uses an inactivated virus. Even if this year's vaccine was ineffective ...

A new Cleveland Clinic study conducted in the United States on the flu vaccine has grabbed vaccine sceptics’ interest, prompting questions and concerns about the vaccine’s safety.

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Apr. 8, 2025 — Scientists have pioneered an influenza virus vector-based nasal spray vaccine platform and developed a nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine. During the early COVID-19 pandemic ...

Getting the Flu and Then Your Shot May Benefit Immunity Sep. 30, 2024 — Researchers found that natural immunity from previous flu infections has a significant impact on how well future influenza ...

an international team reported that a nanoparticle vaccine displaying two recombinant virus-derived proteins; hemagglutinin (H5) and neuraminidase (N1) could protect mice from lethal avian flu ...

In 2023/24, almost 1.65m people received a flu vaccine, with numbers falling to under 1.3m in winter 2024/25. Maree Todd said "vaccine fatigue" and "anti-vax sentiment" may also have played a part ...