“It does suggest there’s enough virus around that reassortment might become more frequent,”Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, toldThe Post. “With enough H5 in these animals and enough seasonal flu in h...
In any given year, only around half of all Americans receive their flu shot. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in some parts of the country, public health leaders are urging as many people as possible to vaccinated against the annual flu virus. Although many Americans are worried...
South Africa’s unregulated hen and egg micro-businesses are particularly vulnerable to spreading the bird flu disease and going bust
in late April 2009,when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of hospitapzations and deaths 8 healthy adults.As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic,cases began to 9 in New York City,the southwestern United States and around the world.In the United States...
Since JE is caused by a virus, antibiotics are not much help and there are no countering antivirals, but there is an effective vaccine. If you plan to spend more than a month in Asia or make Asia your home, particularly if you are going to be spending time in rural areas, consider ...
We may need to introduce awkward workarounds like “bird bird flu” and “human bird flu”; “pandemic in humans” and “pandemic in birds.” Of course, the experts who have used “bird flu” (or “avian influenza”) to mean both the Right Now bird disease and the Some Day human ...
Hemisphere experienced remarkably mild flu seasons. Chile has only recorded 247 influenzacasesthis season, compared to nearly 21,000 in 2019. Argentina reported 412 cases, down from 6,477 the year before. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africareportedonly one case of the ...
Barnett would like to see vaccines updated to contain an A/equine/South Africa/4/03 (H3N8)-like virus (American lineage) and an A/equine/Newmarket/2/93 (H3N8)-like virus (European lineage). "Horses move around so much–shows, events, pleasure barns, races–that chances are always good ...
TheNaturearticle pointed out that the number of people receiving the flu vaccine in the US has been going up for several years. Last year, more than 50 percent of the US population older than 6 years old got the flu vaccine. Health experts also pointed out that other viruses seem to have...
Getting the flu vaccine this year is important, experts at the World Health Organization said during a news briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. It appears that the circulation of flu in the Southern Hemisphere – which includes Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, South Africa and Zimbabwe – ...