Sentences with phrase «cause seasonal flu»

An analysis of 10 years» worth of data on human influenza B viruses has shed new light on the pathogen which can cause the seasonal flu.

Using X-ray crystallography, performed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, Cusack and colleagues were able to determine the atomic structure of the whole polymerase from two strains of influenza: influenza B, one of the strains that cause seasonal flu in humans, but which evolves slowly and therefore isn't considered a pandemic threat; and the strain of influenza A — the fast - evolving strain that affects humans, birds and other animals and can cause pandemics — that infects bats.

After 1919, the descendants of the H1N1 virus continue to circulate and cause seasonal flu outbreaks in humans — and pigs.

For example, the study showed that while standard testing identified a virus as influenza A, which causes seasonal flu, the new test indicated that the virus was a particularly harsh subtype called H3N2.

It causes seasonal flu in every subsequent year.

Not exact matches

«Seasonal flu can cause severe illness or death.

But that's not because it will cause devastation — most health experts anticipate that this flu will be similar to (or even milder than) regular seasonal flu.

The researchers picked the H1 and H3 subtypes because they have been the major cause of human seasonal flu outbreaks since 1918.

Standard testing failed to detect common, everyday viruses: influenza B, a cause of seasonal flu; parechovirus, a mild gastrointestinal and respiratory virus; herpes virus 1, responsible for cold sores in the mouth; and varicella - zoster virus, which causes chickenpox.

As the northern hemisphere braces itself for the flu season, and for the first time the US recommends flu vaccination for everyone over 6 months of age, Australia has confirmed that its main seasonal flu vaccine, Fluvax, caused convulsions in 99 children, all of whom recovered.

But WHO, following criticism from member countries that declaring phase 6 could cause undue alarm about a virus that appears no more dangerous than seasonal flu strains, has been reluctant to declare this a full - scale pandemic.

Although the world's attention is focused on the novel H1N1 virus causing the swine flu pandemic, H3N2, a seasonal strain of influenza, has popped up in many East Asian countries — and some variants in circulation may outfox the seasonal vaccine in use.

About two - thirds of confirmed flu cases in the United States have been caused by the H3N2 strain, the most dangerous of the four most common seasonal flu strains.

The common cold, including chest cold and head cold, and seasonal flu are caused by viruses.

Seasonal flu causes headaches, fever, sore throat, coughing and exhaustion for most patients, and it's easily spread from person - to - person through contact with respiratory droplets.