Influenza
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Believe it or not, there's an experimental trial going on with vaccine against
influenza
that has been grown in the cells of a tobacco plant.
If you just take influenza, you will see peaks at the time where you knew big flu epidemics were killing people around the globe.
And this is something we commonly do to look for respiratory viruses like
influenza.
We recently saw a case where some researchers made the H5N1 avian
influenza
virus more potent.
Tamiflu is a drug which governments around the world have spent billions and billions of dollars on stockpiling, and we've stockpiled Tamiflu in panic, in the belief that it will reduce the rate of complications of
influenza.
Now, of course, we've worked within my lab with many other vaccines that have attained similar responses and similar curves to this, what we've achieved with
influenza.
Well, turns out that anything that reduces the need for the antibiotic would really work, so that could include improving hospital infection control or vaccinating people, particularly against the seasonal
influenza.
First thing Monday morning, we took the car and went to a hospital in Buenos Aires Province, that served as a referral hospital for cases of the new
influenza
virus.
Identifying these at-risk groups was important to include them as priority groups in the recommendations for getting the
influenza
vaccine, not only here in Argentina, but also in other countries which the pandemic not yet reached.
In 2009, Google announced that they were able, with data analysis, to predict outbreaks of influenza, the nasty kind of flu, by doing data analysis on their Google searches.
Unfortunately, there's one very tiny problem, and that is that the user of this product, you or I, would probably die within one week of the next winter, when we encountered a new strain of the
influenza
virus.
You can see the pandemic in 1918 from
influenza.
I wonder what that means for that health system's ability to, let's say, detect influenza."
As an example, let’s look at human
influenza.
Virologists are constantly looking for mutations that might make viruses such as
influenza
more likely to jump.
And in terms of preventing the spread of viruses, I see far-UVC lights in schools, preventing the spread of influenza, preventing the spread of measles, and I see far-UVC lights in airports or airplanes, preventing the global spread of viruses like H1N1 virus.
Well, recently, my colleagues and I designed constrained peptides that neutralize
influenza
virus, protect against botulism poisoning and block cancer cells from growing.
There is some evidence that taking Lipitor and other common statins for cholesterol control may decrease your vulnerability to
influenza.
In addition, in some instances in China, there's been a coinfection with
influenza
and at the same time, there have been some bacterial superinfections on the pneumonias that are occurring.
And that was the
influenza.
That’s why we need a new flu vaccine every year— the
influenza
virus mutates so quickly that new strains pop up constantly.
In addition, wild aquatic birds carry all known strains of
influenza.
So for instance, a biotechnology company has now found broadly neutralizing antibodies to influenza, as well as a new antibody target on the flu virus.
Of course, even larger and more sudden epidemics are possible, such as the 1918
influenza
during World War I, which claimed 50-100 million lives (far more than the war itself).
Ebola may have been transmitted from bats;HIV/AIDS emerged from chimpanzees;SARS most likely came from civets traded in animal markets in southern China; and
influenza
strains such as H1N1 and H7N9 arose from genetic re-combinations of viruses among wild and farm animals.
So, is the world ready for Ebola, a newly lethal influenza, a mutation of HIV that could speed the transfer of the disease, or the development of new multi-drug-resistant strains of malaria or other pathogens?
And they are alarmed by the resurgence of life-threatening diseases such as influenza, HIV, malaria, and TB.
When a woman is vaccinated against common illnesses like influenza, her body creates antibodies that recognize viruses and boost natural defenses against pathogens.
In one study of mothers and their babies in Bangladesh, researchers recorded a staggering 63% reduction in
influenza
cases among infants born to vaccinated mothers, a 36% reduction in the number of serious respiratory illnesses for mothers, and a 29% reduction in such illnesses among infants.
Children too young to be completely vaccinated against Streptococcus pneumoniae and
influenza
were the biggest beneficiaries.
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