Sentences with phrase «more seasonal flu»

To find out what impact this might have on a flu epidemic, Earn and his colleagues turned to a 1982 study which showed that ferrets, a common animal model for human flu, produced more seasonal flu virus if their fevers were lowered either with painkillers or by having their fur shaved off.

Not exact matches

Apart from the nippy weather, many of us start to notice change is in the air when the local chemist has started advertising flu vaccines to prevent seasonal influenza and more throats become scratchy and noses sniffly on our morning commute.

The reality is that there are many more viruses and bacterial infections floating around in the winter months, such as the seasonal flu and the common...

Therefore, all seasonal flu immunization clinics to be conducted by the Health Department will be cancelled and re-scheduled at... Read more

For more information about the flu, visit: www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/influenza / seasonal

Widespread vaccination — which is why U.S. health officials are debating a nationwide swine flu vaccination program that would mandate the creation of 600 million immunizations, more than five times the 115 million vaccines administered each year to battle the seasonal flu.

The 1917 virus had infection and mortality rates typical of seasonal flu, but a single mutation in the proteins affecting how the virus binds to a host cell may have led to the deadly 1918 wave, which killed more than 50 million people worldwide.

So if this virus meets up with the human H1N1 that's a little more transmissible, and it can really just become part of the seasonal flu varieties that we already have circulating everywhere.

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.

«New strategy could yield more precise seasonal flu vaccine.»

Writing this week (May 23, 2016) in the journal Nature Microbiology, a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka describes a novel strategy to predict the antigenic evolution of circulating influenza viruses and give science the ability to more precisely anticipate seasonal flu strains.

For example, research has found that patients who received a seasonal flu vaccination before 11 a.m. produced more antibodies than those who had one after 3 p.m.

It would more precisely forecast the naturally occurring mutations that help seasonal flu virus dodge the vaccine.

If it's because of the panic surrounding the swine flu, he recommends looking at the facts: In the United States, seasonal flu kills tens of thousands more people every year than swine flu has so far in 2009.

The flu, whether its swine flu (H1N1) or seasonal flu, can be even more perilous.

People with asthma are more vulnerable to complications stemming from the flu — such as pneumonia — and are more likely to be hospitalized, which is why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all people with asthma over six months old get the seasonal and swine flu shot.

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Last winter more than 90 % of deaths were pensioners, who are among the least able to afford heat but the most vulnerable to cold - related diseases, such as seasonal flu, hypothermia, bronchitis and emphysema.