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Increased Access to Paid Sick Days May Reduce Workplace Flu Cases

New research from the American Journal of Public Health reveals a reduction in flu cases when access to paid sick days is made available in the workplace. Researchers used an agent-based model to evaluate the transmission patterns of influenza in workplaces under different ...More

1 week ago

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The Upcoming Flu Season: What You Need to Know Now

The last flu season arrived four weeks early, was more intense than expected and resulted in the deaths of more than 110 children in the United States. In an effort to get ahead of the upcoming flu season, experts at Montefiore Medical Center are raising awareness about the ...More

1 week ago

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Saliva Proteins May Protect Older People from Influenza

Saliva may be the key to explaining the age and sex bias exhibited by influenza and other diseases, according to a new study. Published in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research, it provides new insights into why older people were better able to fight off the new strains of ...More

2 weeks ago

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Flu Vaccines Aimed at Younger Populations Could Reduce Transmission

The significant value of vaccinating more children and young adults for influenza is being seriously underestimated, experts say in a new report, while conventional wisdom and historic vaccine programs have concentrated on the elderly and those at higher risk of death and ...More

2 weeks ago

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WHO Issues Interim Guidance on Pandemic Influenza Risk Management

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released interim guidance that replaces the 2009 Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response: a WHO guidance document. Key highlights include the following:- Focus upon risk assessment at national level to guide national level ...More

2 weeks ago

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Mandatory Flu Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel Does Not Lead to Worker Exodus

Mandatory influenza (flu) vaccination, as a condition of employment, did not lead to excessive voluntary termination, according to a four-year analysis of vaccination rates at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill. Flu infections result in approximately 150,000 ...More

2 weeks ago

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Research Team to Study Secrets of Flu, Ebola, West Nile Viruses

In an effort to sort out why some viruses such as influenza, Ebola and West Nile are so lethal, a team of U.S. researchers plans a comprehensive effort to model how humans respond to these viral pathogens. The study will be led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a University of ...More

2 weeks ago

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Interleukin-22 Protects Against Post-Influenza Bacterial Superinfection

Researchers from the Pasteur Institute, Lille, France have shown in a mouse model that interleukin-22 protects against bacterial superinfections that can arise following influenza. Their research is published in the June 2013 issue of the Journal of Virology. Influenza A ...More

3 weeks ago

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Gene Therapy Gives Mice Broad Protection to Pandemic Flu Strains, Including 1918 Flu

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 ...More

4 weeks ago

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Researchers Use Intervention Mapping Method to Boost HCW Influenza Vaccination

Influenza transmitted by healthcare workers (HCWs) is a potential threat to frail patients in acute-care settings, therefore immunizing HCWs against influenza should receive high priority. Despite recommendations of the World Health Organization, vaccine coverage of HCWs ...More

4 weeks ago

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