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Emerging H7N9 virus has potential to cause a pandemic

Virus attaches to both upper and lower respiratory tract epithelium, according to report in The American Journal of Pathology. A new study has found that a novel avian-origin H7N9 influenza A virus, which has recently...

12 September, 2013

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CDC warns of complacency on global health issues

Flu strains a leading threat. America is facing a “perfect storm of vulnerability” for exposure to infectious diseases, making public health efforts more important than ever, the head of the Centers for Disease Control...

12 September, 2013

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Obese people and new moms risk flu complications

A study sponsored by the World Health Organization recently found that new mothers and obese people have a higher risk of death and other severe outcomes from influenza. The report, which was conducted by McMaster...

11 September, 2013

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H1N1 vaccine 50% effective at preventing hospitalization

A single dose of monovalent non-adjuvanted influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 vaccine was 50% effective at preventing hospitalization related to the infection, researchers from the CDC have found. According to the report in...

3 September, 2013

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Interventions needed to improve influenza vaccination among HCWs

Improving influenza vaccination rates among health care workers will take a number of interventions, including consequences for not receiving the vaccine, researchers reported in Infection Control and Hospital...

12 July, 2013

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UCLA researchers predict hotspots for future outbreaks of influenza virus

This year’s unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if bird flu became highly contagious among humans, which is why UCLA researchers and their colleagues are...

18 March, 2013

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‘Defective’ virus surprisingly plays major role in spread of disease

Defective viruses, thought for decades to be essentially garbage unrelated to the transmission of normal viruses, now appear able to play an important role in the spread of disease, new research by UCLA life scientists...

1 March, 2013

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Scientists develop new drug effective against drug-resistant influenza

Scientists writing in the journal Science say they have found a new class of influenza drug, effective against drug-resistant strains of the flu virus. University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers published details...

1 March, 2013

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‘Key step’ closer to universal flu vaccine

Researchers have discovered that the pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies that protect against a variety of flu strains. The discovery brings scientists closer to designing a “universal” influenza vaccine...

1 June, 2012

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Child identified as first case of swine H3N2 reported in U.S. this year

U.S. public health officials have confirmed a new human infection with swine-origin H3N2 virus, also known as H3N2v virus, in a young girl living in Utah who visited a swine processing plant. The girl is the 13th person...

23 April, 2012

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