Influenza

  • Research Reveals Protective Properties of Influenza Vaccines
    Collaborating scientists from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified an important mechanism for stimulating protective immune responses following seasonal influenza vaccinations. The study ...More
    March 22, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Pain Reliever Shows Antiviral Activity Against Flu
    The over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drug naproxen may also exhibit antiviral activity against influenza A virus, according to a team of French scientists. The finding, the result of a structure-based investigation, is published online ahead of print in the journal ...More
    March 22, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Predicting Hotspots for Future Flu Outbreaks
    This year's unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if avian flu became highly contagious among humans, which is why UCLA researchers and their colleagues are creating new ways to predict where an outbreak could emerge. ...More
    March 14, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Two-Pronged Immune Cell Approach Could Lead to a Universal Shot Against the Flu
    Seasonal epidemics of influenza result in nearly 36,000 deaths annually in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Current vaccines against the influenza virus elicit an antibody response specific for proteins on the outside of ...More
    March 14, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Prediction of Seasonal Flu Strains Improves Chances of Universal Vaccine
    Researchers have determined a way to predict and protect against new strains of the flu virus, in the hope of improving immunity against the disease. Influenza is a rapidly spreading acute respiratory disease. Worldwide, annual seasonal epidemics of the flu result in 3 ...More
    March 13, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Study Points to Essential Role of IL-22 in Lung Repair After the Flu
    Once the initial episode of influenza has passed, the chronic effects tend to be overlooked. The results of a new study indicate that the cytokine interleukin-22 (IL-22) plays a critical role in normal lung repair following influenza infection. This study is published in ...More
    March 11, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Study Provides New Clues to How Flu Virus Spreads
    People may more likely be exposed to the flu through airborne virus than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Maryland School of Public Health. The study also found that when flu patients wear a surgical mask, the release of virus in even the ...More
    March 8, 2013
    Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
  • New Class of Compounds is Capable of Killing Influenza Virus
    Simon Fraser University virologist Masahiro Niikura and his doctoral student Nicole Bance are among an international group of scientists that has discovered a new class of molecular compounds capable of killing the influenza virus. Working on the premise that too much of a ...More
    February 21, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Study Shows Reduced Risk of Preterm Birth for Pregnant Women Vaccinated During H1N1 Flu Outbreak
    Pregnant women who received the H1N1 influenza vaccine during the 2009 pandemic were less likely to have premature babies, and their babies weighed more on average. Influenza infection during pregnancy is associated with adverse infant outcomes such as preterm birth. Emory ...More
    February 19, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Flu Outbreaks Modeled by New Study of Classroom Schedules
    Classroom rosters combined with human-networking theory may give a clearer picture of just how infectious diseases such as influenza can spread through a closed group of people, and even through populations at large. Using high-school schedule data for a community of ...More
    February 13, 2013
    Posted in News
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