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Mar. 28, 2023 — Have a cough, sore throat and congestion? Any number of respiratory viruses could be responsible. Today, scientists report using a single-atom-thick nanomaterial to build a device that can ...
Jan. 11, 2023 — Vaccines that provide long-lasting protection against influenza, coronaviruses and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have proved exceptionally difficult to develop. Researchers now explore the ...
Jan. 4, 2023 — Researchers have found that immune systems of men who had recovered from mild cases of COVID-19 responded more robustly to flu vaccines than women who had had mild cases or men and women who had ...
Dec. 26, 2022 — While most germinal centers shut down after a few weeks, some stay in business for more than six months. A new study helps explain ...
Nov. 25, 2022 — An experimental mRNA-based vaccine against all 20 known subtypes of influenza virus provided broad protection from otherwise lethal flu strains in initial tests, and thus might serve one day as a ...
Nov. 16, 2022 — Children with a severe form of epilepsy should be vaccinated against the flu due to the high risk of seizures being triggered by an influenza infection, according to a new ...
Nov. 15, 2022 — The study showed that over the entire year the influenza vaccine reduced pneumonia by 40 per cent and hospitalization by 15 per cent in patients with heart failure. During influenza season in the ...
Nov. 10, 2022 — An inflammatory lipid appears to reduce the number of macrophages inside the lungs with ...
Nov. 10, 2022 — A new study shows the health consequences of COVID-19 reinfection. The researchers found that repeat SARS-CoV-2 infections contribute significant additional risk of adverse health conditions in ...
Nov. 9, 2022 — Finding a turkey this holiday season could be difficult because of avian flu outbreaks on farms. Migratory wild birds could be to blame for transmitting the virus to commercial flocks, but no one has ...
Nov. 2, 2022 — Researchers have discovered a high prevalence of COVID-19 co-infections in central Missouri during the 2021-2022 flu season, with a monthly co-infection rate as high as 48 percent among individuals ...
Oct. 17, 2022 — COVID-19 has caused a protracted shock to life expectancy levels, leading to global mortality changes unprecedented in the last 70 years, according to new ...
Sep. 7, 2022 — Getting an annual flu shot may be associated with a lower risk of stroke, according to a new ...
Aug. 25, 2022 — A new universal flu vaccine protects against diverse variants of both influenza A and B viruses in mice, according to a new ...
Aug. 16, 2022 — Researchers have found a class of well-known antiviral drugs could be part of a one-two punch to treat seasonal influenza and prevent a flu pandemic when used in combination with antibody ...
July 21, 2022 — Research uses computational modeling to try to understand the body's immune response to avian flu. His latest work finds that the levels of interferon may be responsible for its more severe ...
July 21, 2022 — A novel long-term study of how vaccine-related fears influence flu shot outcomes has found that these fears not only reduce vaccination, but also fuel symptoms of dizziness and lightheadedness at the ...
July 8, 2022 — A new universal flu vaccine protects against influenza B viruses, offering broad defense against different strains and improved immune protection, according to a new ...
June 24, 2022 — People who received at least one influenza vaccine were 40% less likely than their non-vaccinated peers to develop Alzheimer's disease over the course of four years, according to a new ...
June 15, 2022 — A new study finds that adult flu vaccination dropped in states with low rates of COVID-19 vaccination, suggesting that decades of successful public health vaccination efforts may be unraveling in the ...
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Monoclonal Antibodies To Avian Influenza Viruses
The CDC reports that the H5N1 Bird Flu has been detected in several species of wild birds as well as domestic poultry flocks. Sporadic infections with this virus have also been detected in mammals (fox, raccoon, skunks, mountain lions). One US case has been reported following exposure to infected birds, but no person-to-person transmission has occurred.
ViroStat's monoclonal antibodies target the highly conserved nucleoprotein of the Influenza A virus. Thus these monoclonal antibody pairs detect many Flu A isolates found in human, avian, swine and equine sources. These include viruses of H1-H14 types and N1-N9 types. Immunoassays utilising these antibody pairs are useful for detecting Flu A in humans as well as for surveillance of circulation in other animal species.
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WHO Concerned Bird Flu Virus Might Affect Humans More Easily
Thursday, July 13th 2023 - 09:55 UTCFull article
The first lineage of the bird flu virus was identified in 1996 and has since caused several infectious outbreaks among birds The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday said it has "strong concerns" that the avian flu virus (H5N1) might mutate to infect humans, as outbreaks of the disease among birds are becoming more frequent. In the WHO's assessment, the virus might adapt to infect humans more easily.
"In addition, some mammals may serve as containers in which (different) influenza viruses can mix, leading to the emergence of new viruses that may be more harmful to animals and people," said the UN Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) and the World Organization for Animal Health. They called on all countries to work together to protect human and animal populations.
The first lineage of the H5N1 avian influenza virus was identified in 1996 and has since caused several infectious outbreaks among birds. In 2020, a variant of the virus caused a significant number of deaths among poultry and wild birds in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and then spread to North, Central, and South America.
A total of 67 countries on five continents reported cases in 2022, with 131 million domestic birds dying, either from the disease or because they had to be culled.
In recent months, two vaccines were tested in France and proved "very effective" in protecting mulard ducks, bred to manufacture the food product foie-gras.
The "favorable results provide sufficient guarantees to launch a vaccination campaign starting in the autumn of 2023," said the Ministry of Agriculture on its website.
With the vaccination, "very little virus excretion was observed in the inoculated animals," explained Béatrice Grasland, of France's health agency Anses. The two vaccines had "very similar" results and "almost stopped direct transmission" and "suppressed" indirect transmission by air, she said, describing the method as "very effective."
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