Sentences with phrase «work against flu»

Antibiotics do not work against flu viruses, but if there is a secondary bacterial pneumonia it's important your dog gets on an antibiotic promptly.

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

Not exact matches

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.

Since infants less than 6 months of age can not get the flu shot (it won't work), antibodies against the flu are transferred to the baby from the mother before birth and through breast milk.

Since infants less than 6 months of age can not get the flu shot (it won't work), antibodies against the flu are transferred through breast milk.

ALBANY, NY (11/27/2013)(readMedia)-- PEF filed a lawsuit November 26th in state Supreme Court, Albany County, challenging a regulation of state Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah requiring persons working in patient care to wear surgical masks during flu season, if they have not been vaccinated against the flu.

Knowledge — understanding how flu viruses work so they can be stopped early in their journey — is likely to be the best protection we have against another epidemic.

«Although this is preclinical work, the strategy warrants further investigation because it holds promise as a simple, economical way to overcome the major limitation of current flu vaccination strategies and may provide broad protection against seasonal and pandemic influenza,» added Elliott.

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.

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

Park suggests the lab - on - a-chip could present a tiny droplet of the sample to be pressed against a phone's touchscreen for analysis, where an app would work out whether you have food poisoning, strep throat or flu, for example.

Image courtesy of Vmenkov / Wikimedia Commons After public outcry against research into avian flu strains that can be transmitted among mammals, 40 of the top scientists working on the influenza strains signed a voluntary moratorium on research last January.

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

They are helping researchers study how drugs work against the swine flu virus and how space and time warp around colliding black holes.

The flu vaccine works by exposing the body to parts of inactivated flu from the three major different types of flu that infect humans, prompting the immune system to develop antibodies against these viruses.

The work, directed by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., found that some study participants who reported receiving flu vaccines had a strong immune response not only against the seasonal H3N2 flu strain from 2010, when blood samples were collected for analysis, but also against flu subtypes never included in any vaccine formulation.

But the ideal flu drug would work against all strains when symptoms surface, which remains a tall order.

Immunologists are working on vaccines that don't need to be reformulated each year: «universal vaccines» that induce broad immunity, protecting against current and future strains of flu by mechanisms that are not just dependent on antibody.

The flu shot is imperfect: It's no guarantee against infection, and it works better during some flu seasons than others.

You should also, in general, refuse antibiotic treatment for routine colds and flu; they won't work against viruses.

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Works 3 years at least, another non-core shot that actually doesn't protect against the canine flu.