The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends influenza vaccines as the primary prevention against the flu virus, protecting families and their communities3 AstraZeneca announces FLUMIST® QUADRIVALENT (Influenza Vaccine Live, Intranasal) doses are...
A person in North Yorkshire has been diagnosed with a strain of flu similar to a virus circulating in pigs. It is thefirst time the virus has been detected in humansin the UK, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said. Here is what you need to know. What is the virus? The viru...
INDICATIONS AND USAGE FLUAD is a vaccine indicated for active immunization for the prevention of influenza disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and type B contained in the vaccine. FLUAD is approved for use in adults 65 years of age and older. This indication is approved under accelerated...
explains Dr. Jeremy Brown, a professor of respiratory infection at University College London in London UK. For this reason, “you need to have a new vaccine against a new virus every year,” he adds. At the same time, the established flu vaccines are...
FLUMIST is a vaccine indicated for active immunization of persons 2 through 49 years of age for the prevention of influenza disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and type B contained in the vaccine. FLUMIST is for intranasal administration only. ...
In 2023, a fox in Powys, Wales, was infected while one person contracted the virus in January 2022 - an extremely rare case. Dr Meera Chand, of UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said: "Latest evidence suggests that the avian influenza viruses currently circulating in birds do not spread...
I last reported on bird flu in February 2023. Back then, the virus was decimating bird populations, but there were no signs that it was making the jump to mammals, and it didn’t appear to be posing a risk to humans. “We don’t need to panic about a bird flu pandemic—yet,” wa...
When France reported its first case of H5N1 bird flu in February, the UK's response was adamant: samples had been taken from more than 3500 wild birds, and those tested so far showed the disease was not yet in the UK. Additional precautions, such as moving poultry indoors, were ...
a tree graph of the relationships between the different versions of the disease. His goal was to track which strains were going where, and when new strains pop up, match them to the nearest previously known strain in the hope that this can shed light on the epidemiology of the new virus....
They weren't the first mammals to contract the virus, but the cases differed this time as it appeared to be spreading between the animals, from pen to pen. In most instances where mammals become ill - including the otters and foxes in the UK - it's likely because they ate infected de...