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A group of experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, says that its latest study on influenza's ability to mutate under pressure has revealed the phenomenon underlying it, called antigenic drift. The work could lead to the development of a final vaccine against the flu.
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20 December 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Treating the common flu has been an objective for scientists for centuries, and yet the virus managed to outsmart everyone for a very long time. But its advantage may soon come to an end, thanks to a new form of therapy developed at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (UTHSCT).Experts here have dis... |
22 April 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Pandemic flu viruses are in the nasty habit of striking their human targets in two-step blows. Experts say that this is very likely to happen with the 2009 H1N1(swine) flu virus that affected the world. Generally, flu viruses tend to hit once, subdue for a year or so, and then come to strike again in some mutated for... |
9 March 2011
09:32 GMT |
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The H1N1 seems to come back in the newspaper headlines, so researchers from Philipps University of Marburg in Germany, published a paper that explains in what way the 'swine flu' contributed to a better understanding of pandemic outbreaks.The authors reveal important lessons about the origins of 2009 H1N1, ... |
13 January 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Extremely obese people infected with the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus, had much higher risks of death than others did, a new analysis of a public health surveillance database reported.Researchers from the California Pandemic (H1N1) Working Group and the Division of Communicable Disease Control, of the Calif... |
5 January 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Vaccinating pregnant women against the influenza virus proved to be over ninety percent effective in preventing their newborn children from being hospitalized with the flu, during their first six months of life, concluded Yale School of Medicine researchers, after a three-year study.The research was led by first auth... |
15 December 2010
04:03 GMT |
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A new research carried out by scientists at the National Institutes of Health, served as foundation for a computer model that projects the severity of this year's flu season, and that could be used in the planning process for seasonal influenza.This statistical model predicts how many people will get sick from s... |
9 December 2010
07:14 GMT |
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Vaccination against influenza is very important, especially for pregnant women and researchers from Saint Louis University are recruiting them to test their immune response as well as the ability of the vaccine to protect newborn infants.This clinical trial has been launched by the National Institutes of Health as a ... |
19 October 2010
09:55 GMT |
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A new approach currently undergoing study could finally allow experts to create universal flu vaccines, which means that people may take a vaccine against the pathogen once, and then not worry about getting sick for years. At this point, people who want to stay protected need to take a dose of flu vaccines every year... |
19 October 2010
05:05 GMT |
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Although everyone should benefit from influenza vaccine and the 'Vaccines for Children' program covers the actual cost of flu vaccine for Medicaid-eligible children, the vaccination rates for poor children are very low in the United States.A new study carried out by a team of researchers at the University o... |
18 October 2010
04:48 GMT |
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According to a new report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the AH1N1 influenza pandemic is maintaining itself at moderate levels in all areas of the world. On the bright side of things, it would appear that it is also letting off in some regions, which is nothing but good news. In terms of effec... |
18 January 2010
17:01 GMT |
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In a statement made today, October 12, Marie-Paule Kieny, the head of Vaccine Research at the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that the United Nations agency plans to start sending H1N1 influenza vaccines to the developing world as early as next month. Most of the drugs will be donated by big pharmaceutical... |
12 October 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Developing countries, through their very nature, have very poor healthcare systems and coverage, therefore a large number of people dies from conditions that would merely inconvenience people in the developed world. Pneumonia is a good example of such a disease. In its basic forms, it is easily treated with antibioti... |
6 October 2009
03:07 GMT |
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it may be that the swine flu vaccine, a new drug created specifically for the recent strain of the virus that caused a global pandemic, won't be available to the general public until after mid-October. The announcement was made yesterday by Dr... |
27 August 2009
04:54 GMT |
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In two new, separate studies using ferret populations, experts have determined that the A H1N1 influenza strain has a very widespread effect on the body, being able to penetrate deep within the respiratory tract, and even as far as the intestines. This find may help explain why the symptoms associated with swine flu ... |
6 July 2009
02:20 GMT |
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As the World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced the swine flu outbreak to be a pandemic, it has brought more attention than ever before to the dangers that the influenza virus holds. Although it's generally regarded as a mild disease, which does not cause any real damage to humans, from time to time it... |
30 June 2009
03:35 GMT |
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The current swine flu pandemic has also drawn attention to a very worrying fact – throughout the world, millions of people could lose their lives because they don't have access to affordable supplies of antiviral drugs and vaccines. In fact, statisticians estimate, more than 90 percent of the world's ... |
15 June 2009
16:51 GMT |
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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced yesterday that it had lifted the warning level on the swine influenza outbreak from five to a maximum of six, which means that the contagion is now officially classified as a pandemic, the first since 1968. Thus far, the disease has spread in some 74 countries, and the WH... |
12 June 2009
02:36 GMT |
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At this point, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced, the flu season in the temperate Northern Hemisphere is over, which means that we will get to a see a reduction in the number of new swine flu cases that appear in these areas. However, health experts warn, the infection will now move south of the Equat... |
28 May 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Keeping in tune with the bleak tone of its recent statements, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries that they should be prepared for more widespread and devastating flu epidemics in the future. The concern is prompted by the fact that, in some parts of South America, Africa and Asia, the swine flu viru... |
24 May 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Recent developments in the analysis of the H1N1 swine influenza virus have shown that the lethal viral strain does not combine genes from humans, birds and pigs, as first thought, but that it's rather made up of a combination of two swine flu strains, which, brought together, are deadly to us. Scientists studyin... |
29 April 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Over the past century, the influenza virus has wreaked havoc in the human population all around the world, while at the same time leaving experts unable to devise a comprehensive cure to kill it off. Because of its unique structure, the viral agent can easily mutate, and does so from one season to the next, making th... |
28 April 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Compound 1, also known as NSC89853, is the enigmatic name under which researchers in Hong Kong and the United States have presented a new substance, which they say is able to effectively counteract influenza strains, including the H5N1 that causes avian flu. The compound is said to be able to effectively block the vi... |
16 April 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Scientists in the United States and Japan managed to discover the genetic complex that is thought to be responsible for the 50 million deaths registered during the largest and deadliest pandemic in the world, the 1918 influenza pandemic. The complex, which contains three genes, allows the virus to survive and replica... |
30 December 2008
02:41 GMT |
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A recent study, conducted by Joseph Emmerich, M.D., PhD, at the University Paris Descartes, showed that people who had been vaccinated against influenza exhibited 26 percent less chances of developing blood clots (venous thrombotic embolism – VTE), as opposed to the control group. All participants to the test w... |
10 November 2008
10:16 GMT |
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Newborn babies are at increased risk of developing influenza, as compared to other children, because of the fact that their immune system is still weak in their first weeks of life. The flu accounts for many deaths among infants who contracted this disease from family members, who didn't get their flu shots... |
27 October 2008
02:50 GMT |
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Flue strikes Europe and North America each winter. But the virus is not native: it always comes from the agglomerated cities of East and Southeast Asia, where new strains of deadly influenza viruses evolve and expand around the globe, as revealed by two new studies published in the journal Science. "For over 60 years... |
21 April 2008
05:05 GMT |
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