As the world prepares for what may be the next pandemic strain of influenza virus, in the H7N9 bird flu, a new UC Irvine study reveals that the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic was deadliest for people under the age of 65, while those 65 and over had...
The mystery illness in Alabama has been solved after two people were killed and seven hospitalized.
Health officials worked this week to uncover the source of the disease that had taken hold in the state.
They found that the mystery illness was...
(MedPage Today) -- Four groups said they could not replicate last year's electrifying finding that a cancer drug cleared beta amyloid plaques from the brains of mice. Also this week: nanoparticles as a next-gen flu vaccine.
There were 53,692 pneumonia and influenza U.S. deaths in the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic and the hardest hit were those age 65 and younger, researchers say.
Study co-author Andrew Noymer, an associate professor of public health at the University...
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The 2009 influenza pandemic prompted the fastest effort in history to develop a vaccine. Within six months of the pandemic declaration, vaccine-makers had developed, produced, and distributed hundreds of...
The recently discovered avian-origin H7N9 influenza virus caused severe illness in 77% of patients and death in 27% of patients in China. Medscape Medical News
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: 'Nanoparticle' Flu Vaccine Could Be an Advance Scientists have used nanotechnology to create a flu vaccine that may be quicker to develop and...
A new study finds that the recently discovered H7N9 bird flu virus, which has been circulating among poultry flocks in eastern China, can be transmitted among ferrets, small mammals that provide a laboratory model for human contagion. Since the...
A recent cluster of respiratory illnesses in Alabama was caused by a combination of influenza A, rhinovirus, and bacterial pneumonia. Medscape Medical News
Chinese and US scientists have used a virus isolated from a person who died from H7N9 avian influenza infection to determine whether the virus could infect and be transmitted between ferrets. Ferrets are often used as a mammalian model in influenza...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: 'Nanoparticle' Flu Vaccine Could Be an Advance Scientists have used nanotechnology to create a flu vaccine that may be quicker to develop and...
As the world prepares for what may be the next pandemic strain of influenza virus, in the H7N9 bird flu, a new study reveals that the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic was deadliest for people under the age of 65, while those 65 and over had greater...
A new approach for creating immunity against the flu virus that produces a stronger immune reaction and protects against more strains than the current vaccines, has shown promising results in animal tests. The result is a step forward in the...
A Nobel prize-winning scientist on Tuesday played down “shock-horror scenarios” that a new virus strain will emerge with the potential to kill millions of people.
A new computer model could help scientists predict when a particular strain of avian influenza might become infectious from bird to human, according to a report to be published in the International Journal Data Mining and Bioinformatics. Chuang Ma...
(MedPage Today) -- Most patients infected by the novel avian H7N9 influenza have required intensive care and more than a quarter of them have died, Chinese researchers reported.
A new approach for immunizing against influenza elicited a more potent immune response and broader protection than the currently licensed seasonal influenza vaccines when tested in mice and ferrets. The new vaccine concept represents an important...
