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It has no cure edit
it has no cure influenza —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.30.32.156 (talk) 17:11, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Differences from Type A edit
The type A and Type B articles don't say what the essential differences between them are.
Both say they have 8 RNA strands. (A says 13,588 bases, B says 14,648 nucleotides (=bases) ie B is somewhat larger). A says they code for eleven proteins (HA, NA, NP, M1, M2, NS1, NEP, PA, PB1, PB1-F2, PB2). but no similar statement for B (although B still seems to have HA and NA and many of the others). Presumably the HA and NA of B are very different from all the HA and NA subtypes of A but how ? Rod57 (talk) 16:52, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
contagious period edit
How long is the contagious period?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:08, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Wiki Education assignment: Virology 2022 edit
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2022 and 15 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Slolamingsnailmail (article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Slolamingsnailmail (talk) 21:26, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Influenza B infection in pigs edit
The cited article (Osterhaus et al., 2000) says that the infections in dogs and pigs do not meet the criteria to prove an infection. So pigs as a host range is incorrect or further proof is needed. 2003:C4:BF09:EAEA:D09D:A45F:9CF8:1F81 (talk) 11:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
B/Yamagata edit
Interestingly, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Influenza B/Yamagata levels have dropped substantially,- B/Yamagata was already on a downturn before the COVID-19 pandemic- and no such viruses have been isolated or sequenced since March, 2020. As of November WHO says “inclusion of a B/Yamagata lineage antigen in quadrivalent influenza vaccines is no longer warranted, and every effort should be made to exclude this component as soon as possible”. Hence I edited the dogmatic sounding statement in the lede- everything is in flux! Wuerzele (talk) 21:28, 23 November 2023 (UTC)