Sentences with phrase «for seasonal vaccines»
The strain that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration chose for the seasonal vaccine did indeed closely match the viruses that sickened people.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone 6 months and older get the seasonal vaccine to protect yourself and those around you.
The Oneida County Health Department announced today that the demand for seasonal flu vaccine has been much higher than anticipated and that their supply of seasonal flu vaccine was exhausted on October 9th.
«The whole infrastructure required for the preparation of seasonal vaccines has enormous disadvantages,» remarks Walter Fiers, a molecular biologist at Ghent University in Belgium.
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.
Novavax says that during Phase IIa of seasonal flu vaccine testing, which began in May, it was able in the majority of people tested to surpass the FDA's requirements for producing enough antibodies to protect the body from the H3N2, H1N1 and B viruses — all of which were common enough a year ago to be used to develop flu vaccines for the 2008 to 2009 flu season.
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.
They were randomized to receive one of three vaccines: the quadrivalent flu vaccine that contained two A flu strains and both lineages of the B strains; the licensed trivalent intradermal vaccine for the 2012 - 2013 flu season; or an alternate trivalent intradermal vaccine that contained two A strains and the B strain that was not in the licensed seasonal flu vaccine.
It will enable manufacturers to rapidly create and make available vaccines for the seasonal flu and pandemic outbreaks.
«For the current H3N2, we don't have such studies, so I can't tell you right now the degree the current seasonal vaccine will protect against the H3N2 virus,» Fukuda says.
If there is such sustained transmission, versus imported cases from people who traveled to areas where the virus is circulating, several decisions would need to be made, Hartl said, including whether to switch production from the vaccine for seasonal flu to the one for pandemic flu, and whether to ramp up production of antivirals.
What drives vaccine fears, he notes, is the knowledge that vaccines don't work for everyone and that they can, on rare occasions, cause serious side effects, such as Guillain — Barré syndrome, which develops in one out of every million people who receive the seasonal influenza vaccine.
The data obtained from this study provide a basis for more rapid, cost - effective clinical trials to evaluate new influenza drugs or to determine the efficacy of candidate vaccines for both seasonal and pandemic influenza.
Kieny said that for reasons that aren't fully understood, vaccine companies that use eggs to grow vaccine viruses get yields of only 25 % to 50 % of those obtained during the production of seasonal vaccine.
Last week, the World Health organization reported that vaccine companies have obtained yields of the pandemic vaccine that are 50 % to 75 % lower than those for seasonal flu vaccine.
No data are yet available for trials in children, who typically have much less robust immune responses to the seasonal influenza vaccine and require a second dose.
Seasonal flu vaccines may protect individuals not only against the strains of flu they contain but also against many additional types, according to a study published this week in mBio ®, the online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
The work, directed by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., found that some study participants who reported receiving flu vaccines had a strong immune response not only against the seasonal H3N2 flu strain from 2010, when blood samples were collected for analysis, but also against flu subtypes never included in any vaccine formulation.
In addition to introducing more effective vaccine, India got better at finding high - risk children, homing in on families that move about the country looking for seasonal work.
«Successful antagonists, following clinical trials for safety and efficacy, could be incorporated into the seasonal vaccine as a way of enhancing responses.
«The study by Egli et al. holds promise for enhancing the response of the seasonal influenza vaccine by blocking the receptor used for the innate immunity signalling molecule IL28B.
Each year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, decides which strains of influenza virus to include in the seasonal flu vaccine.
«Confirmation of the protective benefits of the 2012 — 13 influenza vaccine among persons aged 6 months — 64 years offers further support for the public health benefit of annual seasonal influenza vaccination and supports the expansion of vaccination, particularly among younger age groups.