Top 10 Diseases: Worst Killers in History | Sci Fi Bloggers

Killers: RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae. Variants: Spanish Flu – epidemy has killed 100 millions victims during 3 years. Hong Kong Flu – H3N2 virus – 1968 – 1969 – 1 million deaths. Bird Flu – H5N1 virus – 2006-2007 … Symptoms include chest pain, coughing up blood, and a productive, prolonged cough for more than three weeks. Systemic symptoms include fever, chills, night sweats, appetite loss, weight loss, pallor, and often a tendency to fatigue very easily. …

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The H1N1 Vaccine – Know it in detail! – PHILOXENIA

Global 12 surveillance of influenza identifies yearly antigenic variants. For example, since 1977, antigenic 13 variants of influenza A (H1N1 and H3N2 ) viruses and influenza B viruses have been in global 14 circulation. …

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who1-29_简单记录_百度空间

Pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 virus continues to be the predominant virus circulating worldwide. Seasonal H3N2 and type B viruses are circulating at low levels in parts of Africa, east and Southeast Asia and are being detected only …

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H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Still Spreading In Some Parts Of The World, But Cases Generally Falling, World Health Organization (Medical News Today)

WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl, said in a new briefing that the H1N1 flu pandemic (swine flu) continues to spread in parts of eastern and southeastern Europe, parts of Asia, and North Africa. However, he added that globally it is generally declining. The H1N1 pandemic virus continues to be the main influenza virus circulating globally. WHO (World Health Organization) said the virus is a health …

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A TIME'S MEMORY: Influenza surveillance in a cohort of HIV …

One month post-immunization all subjects had protective antibodies titres which persisted for the whole influenza season. Seven vaccinees (four HIV-infected and three HIV-uninfected) were found to be infected by influenza viruses during the epidemic, … Both presented a benign clinical course and were infected by an A/Brisbane/10/07- H3N2 -like virus. These data indicate that HIV-infected subjects benefit from routine seasonal influenza vaccination. Copyright © 2010. …

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FЯטмς4PαKιςΤαת: Swine Flu

Avian flu and human seasonal flu viruses can infect pigs, as well as swine influenza. The H3N2 influenza virus subtype, a virulent one, is thought to have come from pigs – it went on to infect humans. … As swine flu symptoms are similar to typical human seasonal flu symptoms , and other upper respiratory tract infections, detection of swine flu in humans often does not happen, and when it does it is usually purely by chance through seasonal influenza surveillance. …

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A TIME'S MEMORY: EuroFlu – Weekly Electronic Bulletin Week 3 : 18 …

Based on the antigenic characterization of 1166 influenza viruses reported from week 40/2009 to week 03/2010, 1162 were A(H1) pandemic A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)-like; 2 were A(H3) A/Brisbane/10/2007 ( H3N2 )-like; …

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A TIME'S MEMORY: WHO – Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 – update 85 …

China on the other hand reported outbreaks due to influenza B (48.8% of all influenza positive specimens). Sporadic detections of seasonal A(H1N1), A( H3N2 ) and influenza B viruses were reported from a few countries such as Iran, Japan, …

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科学网-[转载]今日甲流论文 What's new for 'H1N1 FLU' in PubMed

The symptoms were minor and the prognosis was good. All patients recovered fully after treatment. Considering the fact that the flu is highly infectious and can be carried through human to human contact rapidly, local Centers for Disease Control and …. The mean +/- standard deviation duration of fever after the start of oseltamivir therapy was significantly longer for patients with H1N1 virus infection (49.1+/-30.2 h) than it was for patients with H3N2 virus infection …

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Influenza | The Future Of Influenza Vaccine Design

The impact of influenza can only be reduced through a vaccine. Today, the U.S. has only approved the use of inactivated influenza virus vaccines, and to be effective, these have to contain an H1N1, and H3N2 , and a B virus component. …

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