Sentences with phrase «strains in circulation»

Flu viruses constantly change, meaning that each year, scientists identify the flu strains in circulation and target the vaccine accordingly.

Currently a new vaccine against flu is developed every year, in an attempt to respond to recent common strains in circulation, including those which cross into humans from other species.

But if the H3N2 strain in circulation differs substantially from the one used to make the vaccine, the vaccine may offer less protection, and more people will get sick than usual.

During this time, a little over a quarter of all these people developed antibodies to the H1N1 flu strain in circulation, indicating that they had become infected with the virus.

Not exact matches

With the other ones we tried (and returned) my son felt so heavy, they would cut off his circulation in the forward facing position, and I felt like we were both straining.

McAloose and her colleagues are now working on collecting samples from dogs and small wild carnivores in the Russian Far East to get a more complete picture of the various strains of CDV in circulation in the hopes of linking tiger infections to a source, knowledge that would hopefully aid in preventing more infections among tigers.

Although the world's attention is focused on the novel H1N1 virus causing the swine flu pandemic, H3N2, a seasonal strain of influenza, has popped up in many East Asian countries — and some variants in circulation may outfox the seasonal vaccine in use.

And he says that in many areas there are strains of human H1N1 in circulation that are resistant to Tamiflu, the drug of choice for treating the disease in humans.

Russell said that he and his colleagues found that each year since 2002 new strains of influenza A (H3N2), the most infectious variety of seasonal flu, originated in «the east and Southeast Asian circulation network,» which spans from Malaysia and western Indonesia to Korea and Japan.

Next, the researchers injected the protein - sugar vaccine candidate into rabbits and found that the rabbits» immune systems produced antibodies that physically bound to gp120 found in four dominant strains of HIV in circulation today.

Finally, if you have a strain or sprain, topical magnesium can be used to improve circulation or decrease pain — simply spray the magnesium on a sore area and rub it in.

This strain has been in wide circulation in Chinese and South Korean dog populations since at least 2006, called H3N2.

Researchers at Cornell say results from additional testing indicate that the outbreak is being caused by a virus closely related to Asian strains of influenza A H3N2 viruses, currently in wide circulation in southern Chinese and South Korean dog populations since being identified in 2006.