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Probiotic pickled turnip touted as ‘flu wonder cure’
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This simple experiment showed that giving a bacterial extract found in Japanese pickled turnip to mice, as a preventative treatment for flu, reduced some of the symptomatic effects of flu upon subsequent infection. Specifically, it lessened body weight loss and reduced declines in general health during a seven-day flu period.
While the results are encouraging, it is too soon to roll out the red carpet and welcome a “new wonder cure” as both the headlines in the Daily Express and Mail Online suggest.
For instance, mice given the Japanese pickle extract still experienced declines in body weight of approximate...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Medical practice Medication Swine flu Source Type: news
Solving the Mystery Flu That Killed 50 Million People
MoreCalifornia Bill Banning ‘Affluenza’ Defense Is Nixed7 Ebola Patients in Guinea Fight Off the Disease4 Diseases Making a Comeback Thanks to Anti-VaxxersYears ago the environmental historian Alfred Crosby was at Washington State University, where he was teaching at the time, when on a whim he decided to pick up an old almanac from 1917. (This is apparently the kind of thing historians like to do in their spare time.) He looked up the U.S. life expectancy in that year—it was about 51 years. He turned to the 1919 almanac, and found about the same figure. Then Crosby picked up the almanac from 1918. The U.S. l...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - April 29, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Bryan Walsh Tags: Uncategorized 1918 pandemic avian flu bird flu death rates H1N1 H5N1 H7N9 health immune system influenza Spanish flu Source Type: news
Frog slime could protect us against future flu epidemic
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This study has identified a substance in the mucus secreted by a south Indian frog which can kill certain types of flu virus.
Researchers often turn to natural substances with known health-giving properties to find potential new drugs for humans. For example, aspirin was developed based on a compound found in willow bark – which had been used in traditional medicine for hundreds of years.
Some other drugs – such as some chemotherapy and anticlotting drugs – have also been developed from chemicals found in plants.
By isolating the substances that have an effect the researchers can make sure they are pure a...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 19, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Medication Medical practice Source Type: news
First time flu infection may affect lifetime immunity
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This modelling study shows how the strains of influenza A – "bird flu" – circulating when a person is born give them lifelong protection against new subtypes with the same H protein groups. The researchers call this immune imprinting.
This may help to explain the high severity and mortality rate seen among certain groups. For example, the massive flu pandemic of 1918 was an H1N1 strain.
This had a very high fatality rate among young adults, which the researchers consider may have been because when they were born (between 1880 and 1900), H3 was the dominant strain. Therefore they had no protection w...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Medical practice Source Type: news
From bad to worse: How avian flu must change to trigger a human pandemic
The victims are varied, from thousands of sea lions off the coast of Peru to mink farmed for fur in Spain to grizzly bears in Montana and harbor seals in Maine. For months, the avian influenza virus that has been
decimating birds across the world
has also sickened and killed a menagerie of mammals, raising fears it might evolve to spread more efficiently between these animals, and ultimately between people.
For that nightmare to unfold, however, the virus, a subtype known as H5N1, would have to undergo a major transformation, changing from a pathogen efficient at infecting cells in the guts of birds and spreadin...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 6, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
80 years ago today: MRC researchers discover viral cause of flu | Michael Bresalier
Forget bird flu and swine flu, it was ferret flu and The Field magazine that helped MRC scientists discover the influenza virus, after eleven years of dedicated research.In the spring of 1933 a team of Medical Research Council (MRC) staff gathered nasal fluids and throat garglings from a sick researcher, filtered them, and dripped them into ferrets. Within forty-eight hours the ferrets would start sneezing and displaying signs of an influenza-like disease. This research formed the basis of an extraordinarily important Lancet paper by Wilson Smith, Christopher H Andrewes and Patrick Laidlaw, published on 8 July 1933, identi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 8, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Blogposts guardian.co.uk Medical research History of science Source Type: news
Reflections on New York City’s 1947 Smallpox Vaccination Program and Its 1976 Swine Influenza Immunization Program
This article examines in detail the epidemiology of this outbreak and the measures employed to contain it. In 1976, a swine influenza strain was isolated among a few recruits at a US Army training camp at Fort Dix, New Jersey. It was concluded at the time that this virus possibly represented a re-appearance of the 1918 influenza pandemic influenza strain. As a result, a mass national immunization program was launched by the federal government. From its inception, the program encountered a myriad of challenges ranging from doubts that it was even necessary to the development of Guillain-Barré paralysis among some vaccine r...
Source: Journal of Community Health - April 7, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
An Epidemic: Top 10 Outbreaks In U.S. History
Throughout the years, epidemics and plagues have shaken up societies and cultures around the world.
The latest outbreak that Americans seem to be concerned about is the Ebola epidemic occurring in the African countries of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. With experts and doctors saying that the outbreak has the potential to become a full-blown pandemic that will become increasingly more difficult to control, the general public is scared.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continuously keep an eye on public health and any immediate health dangers, the American public still worries about how muc...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - August 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: cbskapost Tags: Health Africa avian flu Ebola Guinea Health Scare History Measles Nigeria Source Type: news
Broad Protection To Pandemic Flu Strains, Including 1918 Flu, Provided By Gene Therapy In Mouse Model
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania have developed a new gene therapy to thwart a potential influenza pandemic. Specifically, investigators in the Gene Therapy Program, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, directed by James M. Wilson, MD, PhD, demonstrated that a single dose of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) expressing a broadly neutralizing flu antibody into the nasal passages of mice and ferrets gives them complete protection and substantial reductions in flu replication when exposed to lethal strains of H5N1 and H1N1 flu virus...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 31, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news
Wild bird flu could mutate into deadly human pandemic
The 1918 flu pandemic killed over 50 million people. Now a study of wild bird flu viruses suggests they could evolve into a new Spanish flu
Source: New Scientist - Bird Flu - June 11, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research
Scientists condemn 'crazy, dangerous' creation of deadly airborne flu virus
Researchers say recreation of Spanish flu strain highlights risk of pandemic, but critics say work puts global population at riskScientists have created a life-threatening virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain that killed an estimated 50m people in an experiment labelled as "crazy" by opponents.US researchers said the experiments were crucial for understanding the public health risk posed by viruses currently circulating in wild birds, but critics condemned the studies as dangerous and called on funders to stop the work.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 11, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample, science editor Tags: Infectious diseases Medical research Science Ethics Flu pandemic World news Microbiology Genetics Controversies Source Type: news
Four lessons the Spanish flu can teach us about coronavirus
Up to 100 million people died in 1918-19 in the world ’s deadliest pandemic. What can we learn?Follow ourlatest coronavirus blog for live news and updatesSpanish flu is estimated to have killed between 50 million and 100 million people when it swept the globe in 1918-19 – more than double the number killed in the first world war. Two-thirds of its victims died in a three-month period and most were aged 18-49. So what lessons has the world’s deadliest pandemic taught us?Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 3, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science Flu pandemic Source Type: news
‘Nurses fell like ninepins’: death and bravery in the 1918 flu pandemic
A doctor ’s harrowing account of the Spanish flu outbreak in London has valuable lessons for medical staff a century onCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIf predictions about the spread of Covid-19 are correct, the new NHS Nightingale hospital at the ExCel centre in London ’s Docklands could soon see a “tsunami” of coronavirus patients. Many will have pneumonia and require ventilators, which is why cubicles in the new 4,000-bed facility all have oxygen equipment.It is to hoped this onslaught never comes and infections spread less rapidly than projections show. But if the worst happens, wh...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 5, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Mark Honigsbaum Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Flu pandemic First world war NHS Infectious diseases Science Health Nursing UK news London Source Type: news
What the 1918 flu pandemic can teach us about coronavirus drug trials | Laura Spinney
In times of crisis, scientists have to make ethical decisions about new treatments – even if the evidence seems shaky• Laura Spinney is the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World• Coronavirus latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverageSometimes the parallels between this pandemic and previous ones are uncanny.Take hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug that regulatory agencies all over the world arenow hastily authorising for the treatment of hospitalised Covid-19 patients. Outside hospitals,Donald Trump and the Brazilian president,Jair Bolsonaro, have expressed enthusia...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 5, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Laura Spinney Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Medical research Infectious diseases Science World news Drugs Flu pandemic Health Society UK news Epidemics France Europe Source Type: news
