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Medical News Today: New swine flu epidemic could rise from rapidly evolving virus in pigs
Study shows human flu viruses rapidly evolve their antigens in pigs, creating strains unrecognized by human immune systems and raising potential for new swine flu outbreaks.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
Tamiflu Resistant Swine Flu Virus Circulating In The Population
Tamiflu-resistant strains of H1N1pdm09 (2009 pandemic Swine Flu) are being increasingly detected in community patients who never received the drug, suggesting that the resistant strains are spreading, a researcher from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Melbourne Australia, announced at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) in Canberra, Australia. Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
How the killer coronavirus compares to SARS, swine flu and Ebola: Interactive map
The map tracks the lethal flu-like infection, which has killed more than 1,300 people and infected 60,000 - mostly in China - and pits it against SARS in 2003, swine flu in 2009 and Ebola in 2014.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pandemic 'natural experiment' brings scientists closer to universal flu vaccine
Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine after using the 2009 pandemic as a natural experiment to study why some people seem to resist severe illness. Researchers at Imperial College London asked volunteers to donate blood samples just as the swine flu pandemic was getting underway and report any symptoms they experienced over the next two flu seasons. They found that those who avoided severe illness had more CD8 T cells, a type of virus-killing immune cell, in their blood at the start of the pandemic...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
Sewage Study Reveals Half Of Tamiflu Prescriptions Went Unused During 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic
A new study concludes that approximately half of the prescriptions of Tamiflu during the 2009-10 influenza pandemic went unused in England. The unused medication represents approximately 600,000 courses of Tamiflu at a cost of around 7.8 million pounds to the UK taxpayer. The novel scientific method used in the study could help measure and improve the effectiveness of future pandemic flu strategies...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
Egypt’s Poor Easy Victims of Quack Medicine
Many pharmacies and herbalists in Egypt prescribe their own 'wasfa' (secret drug or herbal elixir). Credit: Cam McGrath/IPSBy Cam McGrathCAIRO, Aug 10 2014 (IPS) Magda Ibrahim first learnt that she had endometrial cancer when she went to a clinic to diagnose recurring bladder pain and an abnormal menstrual discharge. Unable to afford the recommended hospital treatment, the uninsured 53-year-old widow turned to what she hoped would be a quicker and cheaper therapy.
A local Muslim sheikh claimed religious incantations, and a suitable donation to his pocket, could cure the cancer. But when her symptoms persisted, Ibrahim cons...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 10, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Cam McGrath Tags: Civil Society Education Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Middle East & North Africa Poverty & MDGs Projects Women's Health AIDS avian flu blood dialysis clinics Corruption Doctors Egypt Health care Hepatitis C h Source Type: news
Scientists Hope Tracking Winter Flu Will Help Close Pandemic Knowledge Gap
ImageContent(562e45c2e4b0aac0b8fd7c69,562e42a91900002e00b94dab,Image,HectorAssetUrl(562e42a91900002e00b94dab,Some(),Some(jpeg)),ViktorCap via Getty Images,) Anyone who goes down with flu in Europe this winter could be asked to enroll in a randomized clinical trial in which they will either be given a drug, which may or may not work, or standard advice to take bed rest and paracetamol. Those who agree could be helping the world prepare for the next potentially deadly disease pandemic as well as helping scientists who are now desperate to plug gaps in knowledge left by previous missed opportunities. Scientists are largely in...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 26, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Boosting Body's Natural Killers May Be The Way Forward For Fighting Flu
A 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 University of Jerusalem have shown recently that another, more promising, approach is to focus on improving drugs that boost the body's natural flu killer system. Emergence of new influenza strains, such as the recent avian influenza (H5N1) and swine influenza (H1N1 2009), can lead to the emergence of severe pandemics that pose a major threat to the entire world population...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
University of East Anglia research could contain infectious disease outbreaks
Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have identified a rapid response which could help halt infectious diseases such as bird flu, swine flu and SARS before they take hold. Focusing on the avian flu virus strain H5N1, research published in the journal PLOS ONE identifies key stages in the poultry trade chain which lead to its transmission to other birds, animals and humans. High risk times for the disease to spread include during transportation, slaughter, preparation and consumption...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Bird Flu / Avian Flu Source Type: news
A new bird flu rears its head in China
Will the latest H7N9 variant gather steam, and what should we expect in the coming days and weeks?
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - April 17, 2013 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: meleni Tags: ANH report bird flu europe flu pandemic healthy immune system international SARS swine flu Source Type: news
Strategies for developing new antiviral flu drugs
New analysis of the influenza A virus by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire shows potential for developing new anti-viral drugs which are more likely to be universally effective against the flu virus originating from avian, swine or human virus strains.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
Flu Shot Effective Regardless Of Circulating Flu Strain
New research out of St. Michael's Hospital has found that despite popular belief, the flu shot is effective in preventing the flu, even if the virus going around does not match the vaccine. "It's quite common for people to say they are not going to get the flu shot this year because they've heard it does not match the strain of flu going around," said Dr. Andrea Tricco, the lead author of the paper and a scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital. "However, we've found that individuals will be protected regardless of whether the flu strain is a match or not...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
Are Flu Shots Becoming A Game Of Chance?
With 41 states having reported widespread and severe outbreaks of flu this season, timely new research sheds light on why less than half of the American population has gotten a flu shot. Despite widespread knowledge that a vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances of catching and spreading the flu, even three of the four main TODAY show anchors recently admitted they had not gotten a flu shot (until they did so live on the air)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
Researchers Find A Better Way To Screen For Flu Tweets
Sifting through social media messages has become a popular way to track when and where flu cases occur, but a key hurdle hampers the process: how to identify flu-infection tweets. Some tweets are posted by people who have been sick with the virus, while others come from folks who are merely talking about the illness. If you are tracking actual flu cases, such conversations about the flu in general can skew the results...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
Researcher Taking Shot At Flu Vaccine That's More Effective, Easier To Make
In the midst of an unusually deadly flu season and armed with a vaccine that only offers partial protection, a Purdue University researcher is working on a flu vaccine that overcomes the need to predict which strains will hit each year and eliminates the common causes of vaccine shortages. This year's vaccine is 62 percent effective or "moderately" effective against the current flu strains, according to early estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu-related deaths this season have reached an epidemic level and include 45 children, according to the most recent report...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
