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With flu season approaching, learn how to protect your family and yourself

Flu season officially begins Friday, Oct. 1, and unlike last year's season when shortages led to rationing, there will be plenty of vaccine on hand for everyone who wants a flu shot.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Cyber exploring the 'ecosystems' of influenzas

Predicting the infection patterns of influenzas requires tracking both the ecology and the evolution of the fast-morphing viruses that cause them, said a Duke University researcher who enlists computers to model such changes.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Universal flu vaccine study yields success in mice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adelaide researchers have taken a step closer to the development of a universal flu vaccine, with results of a recent study showing that a vaccine delivered by a simple nasal spray could provide ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rise in flu, contagious lung infections hit Chicago children

If you thought the regular seasonal flu has been late making its annual appearance, you might be surprised to learn that based on recent history, it’s right on time.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Docs urge shots as flu season grabs the South, NYC

(AP) -- Flu season's arrived with lots of coughing and fever in the South and New York City, and it's sure to spread to the rest of the country. The good news: There's still plenty of vaccine for procrastinators.

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created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UK's surge in flu could stretch across Europe

(AP) -- European health officials are warning that the swine flu outbreak that appears to be spiking in Britain could soon spread to the rest of the continent.

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created Jan 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Broadening immune protection by supplementing the seasonal flu vaccine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Supplementing seasonal flu vaccines with a viral protein that remains relatively constant may provide broader protection against emerging flu strains such as the 2009 H1N1 pandemic strain, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers devise computer model for projecting severity of flu season

Researchers have developed a statistical model for projecting how many people will get sick from seasonal influenza based on analyses of flu viruses circulating that season. The research, conducted by scientists at the National ...

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created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New way of predicting dominant seasonal flu strain

Rice University scientists have found a way to predict rapidly whether a new strain of the influenza virus should be included in the annual seasonal flu vaccine. While it sometimes takes new flu strains up to three years ...

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created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tamiflu is more effective at relieving flu symptoms than a combination of tamiflu and relenza: study

In adults with seasonal influenza A virus infection, the combination of the drugs oseltamivir (tamiflu) and zanamivir (relenza) is less effective than oseltamivir monotherapy and not significantly more effective than zanamivir ...

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created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

No longer pandemic, H1N1 flu still hangs on in new flu season

With frantic efforts to gird for the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic still etched on the public mind, some health officials have been gearing up weeks earlier than usual to do battle with the 2010 flu season.

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created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NIH study models H1N1 flu spread

As the United States prepares for the upcoming flu season, a group of researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health continues to model how H1N1 may spread.

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created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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