Sentences with phrase «current swine flu»

The vaccine industry is waiting for a WHO decision on whether to keep making regular flu vaccine, or whether to switch to vaccines for the current swine flu outbreak

The epidemic is almost certain to spread further, but officials attempted to assuage concerns the current swine flu epidemic could play out like the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed millions.

There's a widespread presumption that the current swine flu epidemic began in Mexico.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to raise the pandemic threat level of the current swine flu outbreak within an hour.

Phase II trials for that vaccine candidate are set to begin within the next two months, so it will not likely be available to combat the current swine flu outbreak, which could kill as many as 90,000 Americans and land up to 1.8 million in the hospital, according to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Not exact matches

Pig studies have taken on a new cachet because of the swine origins of the 2009 A (H1N1) strain that's causing the current pandemic — and the pig flu research community's eerily prescient predictions that something like it was bound to make headway in humans.

Building on that work, the current paper looked at a less lethal strain, the H1N1 «swine flu,» that does not infect neurons, but which, the researchers showed, still caused inflammation in the brain via inflammatory chemicals or cytokines released by immune cells involved in fighting the infection.

Smeyne suspects that all flu viruses, including the current H1N1 swine flu pandemic, could cause symptoms of encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain.

The current strain of swine flu, formally known as the 2009 H1N1 flu, is a mutated cousin of the 1918 Spanish flu, which affected both humans and pigs.

Why are we worried about the Swine Flu so much when 1 in 3 adults will develop adult diabetes, and if the current trends in America continue then 1 in 2 children born TODAY will end up with diabetes.

New FluSure XP, when used with FluSure ® Pandemic as part of the FluSure XP Defense System ™, helps guard against 9 out of 10 of the most current flu strains that threaten swine herds today.8 The FluSure XP Defense System also includes SIV surveillance, diagnostics, research and development, and manufacturing support from Pfizer Animal Health.

With the current swine - flu induced handwashing craze, more people are dosing themselves with more Triclosan, even though alcohol - based products work just as well, and Germ Fighters Lead to Hardier Germs.

Although swine flu has temporarily abated, the current medical wisdom is that it will re-emerge with a vengeance in the autumn of this year.