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Tag Archives: H1N1
CEL-SCI and NIAID collaborate on bird flu study
Tweet The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and scientists from CEL-SCI Corporation recently submitted an efficacy study for publication related to the use of activated dendritic cells to treat H1N1 bird flu. The collaborative study involved the use … Read More »
U.K. to monitor drug-resistant pandemic swine flu
Tweet The United Kingdom is taking recent reports seriously about a drug-resistant pandemic flu in Australia that is circulating in the population at large. An Australian research team led by Aeron Hurt from the Melbourne-based World Health Organization Collaborating Center … Read More »
Resistance to Tamiflu may be on the rise
TweetAustralian researchers recently published a study that found the pandemic H1N1 influenza A strain may be developing resistance to Tamiflu, also known as oseltamivir, in Australia. Aeron Hurt, a researcher with the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Reference and … Read More »
Scientists develop mathematical model for zoonotic disease transmission
Tweet Scientists from the United Kingdom and the United States recently developed a new mathematical disease model that can produce transmissibility estimates for emerging zoonotic diseases like the swine flu. Simon Cauchemez and colleagues from Imperial College London and the … Read More »
Two February H1N1 flu deaths reported in Taiwan
Tweet The Taiwanese Centers for Disease Control said on Tuesday that the H1N1 influenza strain killed two people in Taiwan in February and that the number of overall cases grew due to Chinese New Year travel. There were 365 cases … Read More »
Pregnant women who received H1N1 vaccine less likely to have premature birth
TweetA new study reported that pregnant women who were given the H1N1 influenza vaccine in 2009 were less likely to give birth prematurely. Researchers from the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and health insurer Kaiser Permanente of Georgia … Read More »
University of Louisville researchers explore H1N1 outbreak
Tweet Researchers at the University of Louisville recently published a study that examines variations within people who were hospitalized with H1N1 influenza to identify the most impacted patients. Colleen Jonsson, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the university, and … Read More »
Doctors in Israel find three newborns with swine flu
Tweet Doctors at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, found three premature babies on Thursday that were carrying the swine flu virus. The H1N1 virus remained dormant in all three infants, who were isolated from the other newborns at … Read More »