In a study appearing in the November 22/29 issue of JAMA, Heidi E. Brown, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona, Tucson, and colleagues investigated trends in infectious disease mortality in the United States from 1980 through ...
Nov 22, 2016
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Your birth year predicts—to a certain extent—how likely you are to get seriously ill or die in an outbreak of an animal-origin influenza virus, according to a study co-led by researchers from the University of Arizona ...
Nov 10, 2016
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Facemasks incorporating an innovative new technology which emerged from research conducted by The University of Manchester's School of Chemistry will be able to comprehensively trap and kill over 99 percent of all flu viruses.
Oct 26, 2016
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Researchers at McMaster University and two American universities have taken another step closer to developing a much more effective, "one-punch" universal flu vaccine.
Oct 7, 2016
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Researchers have used modeling to estimate the true impact of infectious diseases, such as swine flu, when underreporting can mean the surveillance from time of the pandemic can miss the vast majority of infections that occur ...
Mar 24, 2016
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified a molecular property of the hemagglutinin protein that contributed to the emergence of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza virus. The findings may help officials ...
Jan 25, 2016
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Early last year researchers at McMaster and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York announced that a universal flu vaccine could be on the horizon.
Jan 11, 2016
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Tests on the most common type of influenza found in Chinese pigs reveal that it has the potential to transmit easily in humans, posing a pandemic threat similar to the virus that triggered a pandemic in 2009 after jumping ...
Dec 30, 2015
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New strains of the human pathogen responsible for African sleeping sickness can arise by swapping genes between human and animal variants of the parasite, new research from the University of Bristol has found.
May 14, 2015
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Five people have died in Jordan since the beginning of the year from swine flu, the health ministry said Sunday, adding that it has recorded 130 cases of the virus.
Apr 5, 2015
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