Sentences with phrase «well against influenza»

The vaccine lowers infection risk — it works very well against influenza B — and may also minimize the risk of severe infection.

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It was better against the other viruses, at 67 % against H1N1 and 42 % against influenza B viruses, she said.

Respond better to immunizations against Polio, Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Haemophilus influenza (bacterium that can cause a severe infection)

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 latest study is the most thorough large - scale study to date of the risk of febrile seizures following inoculation with the DTaP - IPV - Hib vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), as well as polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b.

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

Other big issues include combating antibiotic resistance in the U.S., stemming the opioid epidemic that has quadrupled overdose deaths in the U.S. since 1999 and remaining vigilant against the perennial onslaught of influenza — as well as emerging threats including tick - borne pathogens.

The transmissible viruses were sensitive to the antiviral drug oseltamivir and reacted well with antisera raised against H5 influenza vaccine strains.

In conclusion, the antibodies characterized herein show promise for development as broadly reactive therapeutic agents against the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, as well as against the majority of H1N1 and H5N1 influenza strains.

On the basis of the current studies as well as previous reports on the use of intradermal immunization against influenza, hepatitis B, rabies, and other infectious diseases, 2,3,8 it is becoming clear that use of the intradermal route may at least partially overcome the relatively poor influenza - specific immune responses seen in certain at - risk populations, particularly the elderly, in whom the immune response in general is known to diminish with age.9 Moreover, in times of shortage, the dose - sparing intradermal approach might be particularly well suited to the young, healthy persons included in the CDC's high - priority group for vaccination, such as health care workers, as well as to younger, otherwise healthy populations in general.

During his postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology, he developed Vectored ImmunoProphylaxis (VIP) as a means of engineering humoral immunity, leading to successful demonstration of this approach as a prophylaxis against HIV as well as influenza.

But Markovitz and his co-senior author Hashim M. Al - Hashimi, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry at Duke University and formerly professor of chemistry and biophysics at U-M, hope that their team's work can help address the lack of antiviral drugs that work well against many viruses or against viruses that change rapidly, such as influenza.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 27, 2017 — Moderna Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company that is pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics ™ to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced positive interim data from an ongoing Phase 1 study of mRNA - 1440, an mRNA infectious disease vaccine against avian H10N8 influenza, demonstrating mRNA - 1440 induced high levels of immunogenicity, and was safe and well tolerated.

In April 2017, Moderna published human data for its mRNA vaccine technology in Molecular Therapy, which showed that its first prophylactic vaccine candidate, mRNA - 1440 — an mRNA prophylactic vaccine against avian H10N8 influenza — induced high levels of immunogenicity and was safe and well tolerated.

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But, she adds, «the best way to protect yourself against influenza is to get vaccinated.»

Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Annie, a new girl at school, is claimed as best friend -LSB-...]

Sinovac Biotech Ltd. is biopharmaceutical company that focuses on research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of vaccines that protect against human infectious diseases including hepatitis A and B, seasonal influenza, H5N1 pandemic influenza and mumps, as well as animal rabies vaccine.

«If you want to have a proactive strategy to protect against the unpredictability of canine influenza virus, the best preventive strategy is vaccination,» said Crawford.»

Vaccinations are available and veterinarians say it's the best way to protect against the canine influenza virus.

Live attenuated influenza vaccines have been shown to provide better immune responses to protect against influenza.

Fluvac Innovator ® vaccines are the most trusted equine influenza vaccines and help provide your horse with broad protection against newly emerging and conventional equine influenza virus strains as well as equine herpesvirus (EHV 1 and EHV 4).4 - 10 Zoetis regularly tests Fluvac Innovator to ensure its vaccine continues to be effective against emerging EIV isolates.

Knowledge and common sense are your best defenses against canine influenza.

The flu vaccine protects against the three influenza viruses that are expected to be most prevalent each season, but there can be other flu viruses circulating as well.

The closer the match between the circulating strains causing disease and the strains in the vaccine, the better the protection against influenza.