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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.
Foster Farms has taken adequate contamination-control steps at three of its California plants linked to a multistate Salmonella outbreak to have the plants remain operational, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said, according to an NBC News report yesterday.
A vaccine targeting two common norovirus strains reduced vomiting and diarrhea and prevented severe illness in a small clinical challenge study, researchers reported today at the IDWeek conference in San Francisco.
Response to seasonal flu, H7N9, MERS, and other threats could be markedly diminished.
Over the 2 weeks that closed out August, flu activity in the world remained at low levels, with H3N2 as the predominant strain and 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) and influenza B circulating in many countries as well, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
Scientists who conducted the first large-scale cholera outbreak control campaign in Africa using oral vaccine reported yesterday in PLoS One that immunization was well accepted by the public and that high vaccination coverage is possible, even in remote settings.
