A total of 11% of RSV patients experienced a cardiac event, abnormal heart rhythm, heart failure, or ischemic heart disease.
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Google Flu Trends has adjusted the modeling it uses so that it can more accurately predict US activity after it overemphasized flu severity last season, Google engineer Christian Stefansen said in a blog post yesterday.
Global funding for the research and development (R&D) of new tuberculosis (TB) drugs, vaccines, and rapid diagnostic tests dropped 4.6% in 2012, to $627.4 million, after rising every year since 2005, according to a report from the New York–based Treatment Action Group (TAG), which focuses on AIDS and TB.
More than 40% of deaths involved no at-risk conditions, CDC researchers find.
Some Northern Hemisphere indicators show slight upticks in influenza activity.
An 8-year-old girl in Cambodia has become the country's 21st H5N1 avian flu case-patient this year, according to a detailed statement today from Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) and the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Western Pacific Region.
US researchers reported yesterday that giving mice a flu vaccine and simultaneously treating them with rapamycin, an immune-suppressing drug, caused them to generate antibodies that were protective against other flu strains, including H5N1 and H7N9.
A comparison of traditional surveillance and Google Flu Trends (GFT) over the past decade found that GFT isn't a reliable tool for tracking seasonal and pandemic influenza, having missed the first 2009 H1N1 pandemic wave and overestimated the 2012-13 H3N2 epidemic, according to a study released yesterday.
Non-CDC US flu indicators show little sign of rising flu activity.
As the end of the Southern Hemisphere's flu season draws near, activity in Australia and New Zealand seems to have peaked, though over the last few weeks South Africa has seen a second, smaller peak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in a global flu update.
The lack of national flu data is starting to cause worry, especially over novel or resistant strains.
