Mexico acknowledges receipt of information and responds that in March and April the country had an unusual increase in
seasonal influenza with predominance of B strain; some cases presented with severe pneumonia in adults of reproductive age.
Prevention and Control of
Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines, 2017 - 18.
Not exact matches
The mechanisms behind
seasonal influenza outbreaks are unclear, but understanding these patterns could help health officials wrangle
with a notoriously mercurial medical specter caused by a rapidly mutating virus.
The relationship between humidity and pandemic
influenza transmission found in this study is consistent
with the relationship observed for
seasonal influenza.
Seasonal influenza (flu) is not usually associated
with diarrhea, but this season many children are reported to have it as one of their symptoms.
Using virus histochemical analysis, the investigators looked at the pattern of attachment of two genetically engineered emerging H7 viruses (containing the hemagglutinin (HA) of either
influenza virus A / Shanghai / 1 / 13 or A / Anhui / 1 / 13) to fixed human respiratory tract tissues and compared the findings to attachment patterns seen
with human
influenza viruses
with high transmissibility but low virulence (
seasonal H3N2 and pandemic H1N1) and highly pathogenic avian
influenza (HPAI) viruses
with low transmissibility and high virulence (H5N1 and H7N7).
But he has told NIAID that his studies introducing changes to
seasonal influenza to understand how it circulates year to year are not done
with the intention of increasing pathogenicity or transmissibility.
The never - before - described virus did not involve the novel H1N1 but instead picked up the surface genes from the
seasonal human H1N1 virus that has long infected humans and combined them
with what's known as the triple - reassortant swine
influenza.
In additional experiments, the scientists found that participants who had significant antibody responses did not necessarily also have significant immune system T cell responses to avian viruses, indicating that these two arms of immunity can be independently boosted after vaccination or infection; that individuals who reported receiving
seasonal influenza vaccination had significantly higher antibodies to the avian H4, H5, H6, and H8 subtypes; and that participants
with exposure to poultry had significantly higher antibody responses to the H7 subtype, but to none of the other subtypes tested.
This is exactly the opposite pattern seen
with seasonal influenza, which primarily causes severe disease in the elderly.
We theorize that predominant activation of the latter, preexisting memory cells can account for the observed high frequency of neutralizing antibodies (11/15 HA - binding antibodies), the majority (9/11) of which are cross-reactive
with seasonal H1N1 strains (Fig. 3 C) and other group 1
influenza strains, including H5 HA.
Seasonal influenza can cause severe illness and life - threatening complications in older people, young children, pregnant women and people
with on - going respiratory diseases such as asthma or heart disease.
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.
Influenza viruses are prevalent worldwide, and it is estimated that more than 200 000 people in the United States are hospitalized each year for respiratory and heart conditions, illnesses associated with seasonal influenza virus infections.14 Previous epidemiological studies on associations between influenza infection during pregnancy and ASD reported mixed
Influenza viruses are prevalent worldwide, and it is estimated that more than 200 000 people in the United States are hospitalized each year for respiratory and heart conditions, illnesses associated
with seasonal influenza virus infections.14 Previous epidemiological studies on associations between influenza infection during pregnancy and ASD reported mixed
influenza virus infections.14 Previous epidemiological studies on associations between
influenza infection during pregnancy and ASD reported mixed
influenza infection during pregnancy and ASD reported mixed results.
Based on their analysis, the researchers describe a disease
with the same transmission characteristics as
seasonal influenza,
with the median time from infection to symptom onset being 1.4 days, symptoms lasting a median of 5.1 days, and moderate transmissibility.