Articles on the Virology Blog are pertinent re influenza research and the influenza industry, including controversial ‘gain of function’ H5N1 research, refer to the following discussion threads:

• Permissive vaccines and viral virulence
• TWiV 321: a TRIP and a pause
• Reconstruction of 1918-like influenza virus stirs concern over gain of function experiments
• Incidence of asymptomatic human influenza A(H5N1) virus infection
• Fouchier vs the Dutch government on influenza H5N1 research
• Influenza H7N9 gain of function experiments on Dispatch Radio
• Virologists plan influenza H7N9 gain of function experiments
• Inefficient influenza H7N9 virus aerosol transmission among ferrets
• Update on influenza H7N9 virus at ASM in Denver
• TWiV 233: We’re surrounded
• Further defense of the Chinese H1N1 – H5N1 study
• Ferreting out the truth on Science Sunday Hangout on Air
• Influenza H5N1 x H1N1 reassortants: ignore the headlines, it’s good science
• TWiV 230: Gene goes to Washington, flu chickens out
• Human infections with avian influenza H7N9 virus from wet market poultry
• WHO report on human cases of avian influenza A(H7N9) infection
• First imported human infection with avian influenza H7N9
• TWiV 229: Partly cloudy with a high of H7N9
• Avian influenza H7N7 virus outbreak: Lessons for H7N9
• Avian influenza H7N9 viruses isolated from humans: What do the gene sequences mean?
• First human infections with avian influenza H7N9 virus
• Hemorrhagic fever virus missing from BSL-4 laboratory
• Receptor for new coronavirus-EMC identified
• Threading the NEIDL: TWiV goes inside a BSL-4
• Proposed US policy on dual use research of concern
• Harvard University: Great virology, bad science writing
• Comment on H5N1 lethality in humans
• Human infections with influenza H5N1 virus: How many?
• The risks and benefits of influenza H5N1 research
• TWiV 217: I just flu in and my arms are shot
• Headline writers: Please take a virology course
• End of moratorium on influenza H5N1 research
• Effectiveness of this season’s influenza vaccine
• Origin of the H5N1 storm
• Influenza H5N1 virus versus ferrets, round two

See Over-vaccination.net’s web page on annual flu vaccination and the influenza industry for more background.