Decades after H2N2 vanished from humans, declining immunity and persistent animal reservoirs are renewing calls for stockpile-ready vaccines against a historically pandemic-capable flu subtype. Review ...

Scientists have evidence that descendants of the H2N2 avian influenza A virus that killed millions worldwide in the 1950s still pose a threat to human health, particularly to those under 50. St. Jude ...

The article warns that the H2N2 flu virus could re-emerge as a pandemic in the same way H1N1 did Governments should launch a vaccination programme now to guard against a possible H2N2 flu pandemic, ...

Scientists in 18 countries are tracking down and destroying thousands of vials of a lethal virus which, if it escaped, could trigger the long-feared global flu pandemic, the World Health Organisation ...

Thousands of laboratories across the world are scrambling to destroy samples of a flu virus that killed up to 4 million people in the 1950s. A U.S.-based private organization sent out samples of the ...

Governments should launch a vaccination programme now to guard against a possible H2N2 flu pandemic, according to an article in the journal Nature., external The US authors say immunity to the H2N2 ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists report that avian H2N2 influenza A viruses related to 1957-1958 pandemic infect human cells and spread among ferrets; may aid identification of ...