Sentences with phrase «more seasonal flu virus»

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

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...

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.

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.

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