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Boosting Body's Natural Flu Killers as Way to Offset Virus Mutation Problem
May 23, 2013 The known difficulty in fighting influenza (flu) is the ability of the flu viruses to mutate and thus evade various medications that were previously found to be effective. Researchers at the Hebrew ... > full story -
Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009 More Deadly for Younger Adults
May 22, 2013 As the world prepares for what may be the next pandemic strain of influenza virus, in the H7N9 bird flu, a new study reveals that the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic was deadliest for people under the ... > full story -
Novel Approach for Influenza Vaccination Shows Promise in Early Animal Testing
May 22, 2013 A new approach for immunizing against influenza elicited a more potent immune response and broader protection than the currently licensed seasonal influenza vaccines when tested in mice and ferrets. ... > full story -
Low Population Immunity to New Bird Flu Virus H7N9 in Humans
May 21, 2013 The level of immunity to the recently circulating H7N9 influenza virus in an urban and rural population in Vietnam is very low, according to the first population level study to examine human immunity ... > full story -
Predicting Infectious Influenza
May 20, 2013 A new computer model could help scientists predict when a particular strain of avian influenza might become infectious from bird to human, according to a new ... > full story -
Expert Questions US Public Health Agency Advice on Influenza Vaccines
May 16, 2013 The United States government public health agency, the CDC, pledges "To base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data, openly and objectively derived." But experts argue ... > full story -
H1N1 Discovered in Marine Mammals
May 15, 2013 Scientists detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic ... > full story -
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Flu in Pregnancy May Quadruple Child's Risk for Bipolar Disorder
May 14, 2013 Flu in pregnant mothers has been linked to a nearly fourfold increased risk that their child might develop bipolar disorder in adulthood. The findings add to mounting evidence of possible shared ... > full story -
Level of Dengue Virus Needed for Transmission Defined
May 13, 2013 Researchers have identified the dose of dengue virus in human blood that is required to infect mosquitoes when they bite. Mosquitoes are essential for transmitting the virus between people so the ... > full story -
Bird Flu in Live Poultry Markets Are the Source of Viruses Causing Human Infections
May 13, 2013 On 31 March 2013, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission announced human cases of novel H7N9 influenza virus infections. Scientists have now investigated the origins of this novel ... > full story
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