News tagged with influenza pandemic
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Dynasty: Influenza virus in 1918 and today
The influenza virus that wreaked worldwide havoc in 1918-1919 founded a viral dynasty that persists to this day, according to scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Study of first wave of swine flu requires revised public health strategies
There is no way to know how the newest strain of the H1N1 influenza virus will behave in the future. But scientists, notably those working at the intersections of epidemiology, mathematics, modeling and statistics, are monitoring ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Vaccinating children may be effective at helping control spread of influenza, experts say
Targeting children may be an effective use of limited supplies of flu vaccine, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the EU. The study suggests that, used to support other control measures, this could help ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Majority won't have access to antivirals in pandemic but generic drugs could help prevent deaths
Almost 90 per cent of the world's population will not have timely access to affordable supplies of vaccines and antiviral agents in the current influenza pandemic, but it is possible that inexpensive generic drugs that are ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 12, 2009 |
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WHO declares flu pandemic
The swine flu has escalated into the world's first influenza pandemic in 40 years, the World Health Organization declared Thursday, after infecting tens of thousands of people in 74 countries.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Swine flu origins revealed
A new analysis of the current swine-origin H1N1 influenza A virus suggests that transmission to humans occurred several months before recognition of the existing outbreak.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 11, 2009 |
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EU seeks common strategy on swine flu vaccine
EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou on Tuesday called for a common European strategy on producing and using a swine flu vaccine, emphasising the need to focus on those most vulnerable.
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Jun 09, 2009 |
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Probing Question: Can a pandemic be predicted?
SARS. Ebola. West Nile. Avian flu. Over the past decade, the world has watched and waited to see if these viruses would develop into global health threats. In recent weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) sent a shockwave ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 04, 2009 |
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World 'getting closer' to swine flu pandemic: WHO
The world is "getting closer" to a swine flu pandemic as the virus shows early signs of spreading locally in countries outside the Americas, a senior World Health Organisation official said Tuesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Bird flu virus remains infectious up to 600 days in municipal landfills
Amid concerns about a pandemic of swine flu, researchers from Nebraska report for the first time that poultry carcasses infected with another threat — the 'bird flu' virus — can remain infectious in municipal ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 27, 2009 |
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In pandemics of the past, caution for the future
A novel flu circulated in some American cities in April and May of 1918, causing mild illness and going largely unnoticed. It returned in September, and again in January, eventually killing more than 500,000 people nationwide.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 24, 2009 |
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New vaccine strategy might offer protection against pandemic influenza strains
A novel vaccine strategy using virus-like particles (VLPs) could provide stronger and longer-lasting influenza vaccines with a significantly shorter development and production time than current ones, allowing public health ...
May 18, 2009 |
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Would NHS staff go to work during a flu pandemic?
A survey of health care workers has revealed that as many as 85% may stay off work if an influenza pandemic did take hold of the country. The results of the survey, published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, sugges ...
May 14, 2009 |
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Researchers study the human factor in spread of pandemic illness
Industrial engineers Sandra Garrett of Clemson University and Barrett Caldwell of Purdue University have proposed a new system to warn of an impending pandemic by monitoring signals in human behavior. The system could result ...
May 12, 2009 |
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Swine flu: Early findings about pandemic potential reported in new study
Early findings about the emerging pandemic of a new strain of influenza A (H1N1) in Mexico are published today in Science.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 11, 2009 |
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