Sentences with phrase «year seasonal flu»

Flu viruses are constantly mutating and every year the seasonal flu shot is updated to keep up with the viruses that are making people sick.

Not exact matches

For the past three years, the U.S. economy has been prone to bouts of seasonal flu in the Spring.

Picente has directed the health department to hold two immunization clinics for adults 19 - years of age and older in that community in the coming weeks; the first for H1N1 shots and the second for seasonal flu vaccinations.

Widespread vaccination — which is why U.S. health officials are debating a nationwide swine flu vaccination program that would mandate the creation of 600 million immunizations, more than five times the 115 million vaccines administered each year to battle the seasonal flu.

It causes seasonal flu in every subsequent year.

The company plans in October to conduct a separate test specifically to study the seasonal flu vaccine's effectiveness among 480 elderly participants (a demographic often encouraged to get seasonal flu shots), and Phase III efficacy trials across a larger set of demographics are scheduled to begin early next year.

Novavax says that during Phase IIa of seasonal flu vaccine testing, which began in May, it was able in the majority of people tested to surpass the FDA's requirements for producing enough antibodies to protect the body from the H3N2, H1N1 and B viruses — all of which were common enough a year ago to be used to develop flu vaccines for the 2008 to 2009 flu season.

Every year, between 250,000 and 500,000 people of all ages die worldwide after getting seasonal flu, partly because few people are vaccinated for it.

Either approach will take at least another five years of testing before it would be ready to fight seasonal flu, Nabel says.

«The influenza field is largely fixated on studying pandemic or potential pandemic viruses, but those viruses only infect a few dozen people every year whereas seasonal flu infects millions — and yet we don't study human influenzas closely enough.»

But it seems that while the number of deaths in the US was comparable to a bad seasonal flu, swine flu claimed three times as many years of life because the victims were so young.

An analysis of 10 years» worth of data on human influenza B viruses has shed new light on the pathogen which can cause the seasonal flu.

While this year's vaccine is a much better match to the circulating seasonal strains of influenza, the shifty nature of the virus and the need to pick the viruses used to make global vaccine stocks well before the onset of the flu season can make vaccine strain selection a shot in the dark.

For many years, researchers occasionally saw H274Y appear in seasonal flu patients while they were being treated, but those viruses tended to not be very good at spreading to other people, so resistance never really caught on.

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.

This raises concerns that seasonal flu vaccine, which some companies are still making, may be useless when the northern hemisphere's flu season arrives later this year.

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.

If it's because of the panic surrounding the swine flu, he recommends looking at the facts: In the United States, seasonal flu kills tens of thousands more people every year than swine flu has so far in 2009.

Lavila Weckwerth, of Watervliet, Mich., has gotten a seasonal flu shot for the past seven years — despite being diagnosed with fibromyalgia three years ago — and has never noticed any side effects.

I wrote a couple of posts last year about how the seasonal flu is really just Vitamin D deficiency disease and why I take a fermented cod liver oil supplement every day even when I get good doses of midday Florida sunshine.

You should note that canine influenza is not seasonal, like the human flu, and can be contracted year - round.

Seasonal flu (the common flu) season occurs every year.

Over the past couple years, in both 2015 and 2016, the first quarter represented the high point for occupancy in each year, as first quarter data typically shows an uptick in occupancy due to seasonal factors, such as the flu as admissions to skilled nursing properties can increase during that time of year.