Sentences with phrase «vaccines against flu»

In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies have influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards, to alarm governments worldwide.

The company has begun human testing of its mRNA drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer, and for vaccines against the flu, Zika, and chikungunya viruses.

WHO officials also admit that a vaccine against a flu pandemic would be in short supply.

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.

Not exact matches

A part of the research will include analyzing exactly why this year's flu vaccine proved so ineffective against the most common strains circulating (the shot was just 25 % effective against influenza A strains).

Another caveat: It is still possible to contract the flu after getting a flu shot since the vaccine you receive may not protect against all strains.

Because the swine flu virus was traced on the evolutionary tree to see how it mutated and thus develop a vaccine that works against it.

By 2008, kids were protected against 14 vaccine - preventable diseases by getting up to 36 doses of 10 vaccines before starting kindergarten — three doses of HepB, three doses of Rotavirus, five doses of DTaP, three or four doses of Hib, four doses of Prevnar 7, four doses of IPV, two doses of MMR, two doses of chicken pox, two doses of hepatitis A, and six to seven doses of the flu vaccine.

Every year certain people argue against the flu vaccine on the grounds that the flu is normal and common.

Breastfeeding can provide some protection against flu for infants, including children younger than 6 months who can not receive the flu vaccine.

The Hep B vaccine (or HBV) protects against the virus that causes hepatitis B; the DTaP vaccine protects against the viruses that cause diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough); the PCV (pneumococcal vaccine) protects against the cause of bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, and ear infections; the Hib vaccine protects against Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria (which can also cause bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, or epiglottitis); and the rotavirus oral vaccine protects against a virus that causes the stomach flu.

Preliminary estimates by the federal CDC show this year's version of the flu vaccine is 36 percent effective against all strains of the flu, but just 25 percent effective against the H3N2 strain causing most flu cases this winter.

Flu vaccines provide protection against three or four viruses (depending upon the type of vaccine you receive), are generally covered by many health insurance plans and are readily available in Erie County physicians» offices, pharmacies and other community sites.

The 2012 - 2013 flu vaccine will protect against the three flu viruses that experts predicted will be the most common during this year's flu season.

National Influenza Vaccination Week — December 7th — 13th The Oneida County Health Department reminds everyone that the best protection against the flu is the flu vaccine and encourages everyone 6 - months and older who has not yet received a flu shot to do so during National Influenza Immunization Week — December 7th — 13th.

The flu vaccine can protect against several strains of the flu virus.

Based on preliminary effectiveness estimates, the CDC estimates that the flu vaccine is approximately 25 % effective against the H3N2 strain https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6706a2.htm.

This year's vaccine combines protection against the H1N1 virus and several strains expected to be most common during this flu season which runs through March.

Flu vaccines protect against three or four viruses (depending upon the type of vaccine you receive).

Even unvaccinated people who have already gotten the flu still benefit from vaccination since the vaccine protects against 3 different flu viruses.

Flu vaccines protect against three or four viruses (depending upon the type of vaccine you receive) and the vaccine is readily available in Erie County physicians» offices, pharmacies and other community sites.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — The Westchester County Health Department is offering residents the opportunity this month to get free flu shots, along with vaccines to protect against six other diseases at its Yonkers and White Plains clinics.

These included the past two flu seasons in which vaccines offered only limited protection against the most widely circulating strain of influenza A.

Are we close to being able to develop a universal flu vaccine that would confer immunity against all strains of influenza?

Annual flu vaccines are formulated to protect against one type of influenza B and two strains of influenza A, one H3N2 strain and one H1N1 strain.

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.

One of the most controversial public health policy conflicts of the last five years revolves around Indonesia's refusal to share bird flu samples with the World Health Organization, in a stand against unequal vaccine distribution.

Each year, scientists create an influenza (flu) vaccine that protects against a few specific influenza strains that researchers predict are going to be the most common during that year.

There is only a preliminary form of a vaccine against H5N1 flu strains, and even if there were a developed vaccine, the virus might spread faster than public - health officials could get people inoculated.

An international team of scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics that could kill millions.

Also, these yearly vaccines give us no protection at all against potential future pandemic flu.»

A vaccine that can eliminate seasonal flu shots and provide protection against pandemics?

Dr Derek Gatherer of Lancaster University said: «Every year we have a round of flu vaccination, where we choose a recent strain of flu as the vaccine, hoping that it will protect against next year's strains.

These antibodies protect against certain strains of influenza virus in the vaccine, but may not provide thorough protection against other strains of flu that may be present.

The method is relatively new, but far bacteria - based vaccines have proven effective: A seasonal flu vaccine produced by VaxInnate successfully protected humans in clinical trials, and the company's recently tested swine flu vaccine immunized mice against the virus.

It's a serious question: with flu vaccine production slow and limited, Tamiflu and other antivirals are the main first - line of defence against a pandemic.

VaxInnate is testing a universal flu vaccine that would work against all strains of the disease by using a Toll - like receptor (TLR) technology platform.

Flu vaccines are designed to prevent infection by eliciting antibodies against HA, which the virus uses to break into cells lining the airways.

The vaccine caused the mice to create antibodies against neuraminidase, a flu protein that lets newly born virus particles escape from infected cells.

One reason vaccines using weakened flu virus are not used in the elderly is that they have been exposed to many strains of flu virus over the years and have more antibodies in the nasal tract, which can inhibit the weakened flu virus from infecting and stimulating the immune response necessary to protect against the virus.

And because they work against all flu, such vaccines can be stockpiled to prepare for pandemics.

None of the available swine flu vaccines can protect against all these strains.

However, researchers are working to develop universal vaccines that could protect against multiple flu strains without needing to be updated.

With no head in place to hoard the immune response, the vaccine might coax the body to make enough stem - focused antibodies to protect against flu, the researchers hoped, regardless of the seasonal mutations occurring at the top.

Studies have shown that flu vaccines work better at protecting against influenza B or influenza A H1N1 viruses than influenza A H3N2.

Professor Ajit Lalvani from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, who led the study, said: «New strains of flu are continuously emerging, some of which are deadly, and so the Holy Grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all strains of flu.»

«We found that the vaccines produced against the swine flu pandemic in 2009 were very effective in both preventing influenza infection and reducing the chances of hospital admission due to flu.

Last summer, she lost her job as European correspondent for Renewable Energy World, an online publication, after filing charges with the F.B.I. against the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and several top U.S. government officials, claiming they are part of a plot to depopulate the United States using tainted H1N1 flu vaccines.

The chief flu scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO) today defended his agency against criticism that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic was «fake,» that its threat to human health was hyped, and that WHO's policies were influenced by vaccine manufacturers who benefited from the pandemic virus.

Novartis announced in a press statement today that it has made the first batch of vaccine against the A (H1N1) influenza virus causing the swine flu pandemic.