Sentences with phrase «against a flu pandemic»

WHO officials also admit that a vaccine against a flu pandemic would be in short supply.

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After its latest battle with H1N1, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee recommended in February that everyone six months and older get the annual vaccine, a step that should improve immunity against future pandemics as well as seasonal cycles of the flu.

An international team of scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics that could kill millions.

Also, these yearly vaccines give us no protection at all against potential future pandemic flu.»

A vaccine that can eliminate seasonal flu shots and provide protection against pandemics?

It's a serious question: with flu vaccine production slow and limited, Tamiflu and other antivirals are the main first - line of defence against a pandemic.

«Although this is preclinical work, the strategy warrants further investigation because it holds promise as a simple, economical way to overcome the major limitation of current flu vaccination strategies and may provide broad protection against seasonal and pandemic influenza,» added Elliott.

And because they work against all flu, such vaccines can be stockpiled to prepare for pandemics.

This could curb seasonal flu annually and protect people against future pandemics.»

Governments have been stockpiling the antiviral drug oseltamivir as a defence against pandemic flu.

«We found that the vaccines produced against the swine flu pandemic in 2009 were very effective in both preventing influenza infection and reducing the chances of hospital admission due to flu.

The chief flu scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO) today defended his agency against criticism that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic was «fake,» that its threat to human health was hyped, and that WHO's policies were influenced by vaccine manufacturers who benefited from the pandemic virus.

Novartis announced in a press statement today that it has made the first batch of vaccine against the A (H1N1) influenza virus causing the swine flu pandemic.

This means that when an unexpected flu strain appears, such as the 2009 pandemic - causing H1N1 virus, there is no way to rapidly produce a vaccine against it.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have isolated human antibodies against a type of bird flu that has killed more than 200 people in China since 2012 and which may pose a worldwide pandemic threat.

Researchers around the world, including at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), are pursuing a «universal» flu vaccine, one that would protect against most or all seasonal and pandemic strains of the flu virus.

Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, among others, has pushed for assessments that would weigh benefits against the number of people who could die in a potential humanmade flu pandemic.

Their study shows that the drugs are all but useless in the yearly battle against seasonal flu, while further deflating hopes they might be used to fight a pandemic.

The finding is exciting «because it suggests that the seasonal flu vaccine boosts antibody responses and may provide some measure of protection against a new pandemic strain that could emerge from the avian population,» said senior study author Paul G. Thomas, PhD, an Associate Member in the Department of Immunology at St. Jude.

The study focused on a flu vaccine designed to protect against an unusual strain that originated in pigs and caused a pandemic in 2009.

CLAIMS by the medical journal BMJ that there is insufficient evidence to justify the stockpiling of Tamiflu as a defence against pandemic flu have themselves been questioned.

Urumin was specific for H1 strains of flu, such as the 2009 pandemic strain, and was not effective against other current strains such as H3N2.

This could curb seasonal flu annually and protect people against future pandemics,» Prof Lalvani said.

January 10, 2011 H1N1 pandemic points to vaccine strategy for multiple flu strains Although the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic infected an estimated 60 million people and hospitalized more than 250,000 in the United States, it also brought one significant benefit — clues about how to make a vaccine that could protect against multiple strains of influenza.

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That's because the vaccine debate crystallized in 2009 - 2010 when media hype created a pandemic leading to mass inoculation against H1N1 (swine flu) that passed as weirdly as it arrived... By 2010, savvy dog breeders were rethinking vaccine protocol and the public said «no way» to that year's drugstore signs «get your flu shots here» See display links.

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