News tagged with flu strains
New findings reveal how influenza virus hijacks human cells
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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Influenza is and remains a disease to reckon with. Seasonal epidemics around the world kill several hundred thousand people every year. In the light of looming pandemics if bird flu strains develop the ability ...
New research helps explain why bird flu has not caused a pandemic
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ON ...
Swine flu goes person-to-pig; could it jump back?
May 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Now that the swine flu virus has passed from a farmworker to pigs, could it jump back to people? The question is important, because crossing species again could make it more deadly.
CDC official downplays risk from swine flu vaccine
Oct 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A top U.S. health official says the risks from not getting the swine flu vaccine are greater than any potential risks associated with the vaccine.
Experts: Mild swine flu could quickly turn deadly
May 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A flu virus is a powerhouse of evolution, mutating at the maximum speed nature allows. A mild virus can morph into a killer and vice versa.
Study shows workplace benefits of influenza vaccination in 50-64 year olds
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Workers age 50-64 who received influenza vaccine lost substantially fewer days of work and worked fewer days while ill, according to a new study in the Feb. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. Given ...
Manufacturers brewing new swine flu vaccine
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Attention is shifting to the world's five leading flu vaccine makers: How fast are they really producing swine flu vaccine, and just how do they plan to test that it works?
Swine flu genes dissimilar to past pandemics
May 06, 2009 |
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Some genetic markers of influenza infection severity have been identified from past outbreaks. Researchers have failed to find most of these markers, described in the open access journal BMC Microbiology, in samples of the ...
New decision model seeks to avert flu vaccine mismatch of 2007-2008 season
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 05, 2008 |
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To avoid producing vaccines that treat the wrong strains during flu season, the FDA should consider deferring some of its selections as well as other changes to the vaccine composition, according to a study by two decision ...
