FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for TessArae® 2009 H1N1 Influenza A Virus Assay Based on the Affymetrix® … (Business Wire via Yahoo!…

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & POTOMAC FALLS, Va.—-TessArae, LLC, a privately held company, and Affymetrix Inc., today announced that the Food and Drug Administration has granted Emergency Use Authorization to TessArae for its TessArray® Resequencing Influenza A Microarray Detection Panel for the Detection of the 2009 H1N1 Influenza A Virus for the duration of the declaration of emergency unless …

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Does The Seasonal Flu Help Fight Against Swine Flu Then The …

There are 3 kinds of seasonal flu : seasonal H3N2 , type B & H1N1, so I’m presuming you mean the seasonal H1N1 flu . Having had seasonal H1N1 flu won’t provide you with antibody protection against the novel H1N1 virus. Although closely related , they aren’t quite the same. … The “ flu -like” symptoms are just the immune system doing what it does and are no different from what the immune response does with an actual flu infection except for the severity & duration. …

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Number of victims to unknown virus growing! State of emergency to …

When taken within one to two days of developing symptoms , rimantadine can shorten the duration and moderate the severity of influenza. Both rimantadine and the similar drug amantadine are derivates of adamantane. Rimantadine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration … According to the CDC, 100 percent of seasonal h3n2 and 2009 pandemic flu samples tested have shown resistance to rimantadine and it is no longer recommended to prescribe for treatment of the flu . …

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going viral « Michael Fury

The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. …. Yet it is the pill Tamiflu, which makes symptoms less severe and shortens the duration of the illness, that is in short supply — not its harder-to-use inhaled competitor Relenza. …

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