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Flu vaccine reduces a child’s risk of flu-related intensive care hospitalization

amministratore — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:56:07 +0000

A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published on the Journal of Infectious Diseases, showed that flu vaccine reduced children’s risk of intensive care unit flu admission by 74 percent. The authors of the study analyzed the medical records of children, aged between 6 months and 17 years, hospitalized during the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 flu seasons with acute severe respiratory illness.

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Flu vaccine reduces a child’s risk of flu-related intensive care hospitalization

amministratore — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:56:07 +0000

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Flu vaccine reduces a child’s risk of flu-related intensive care hospitalization

amministratore — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:56:07 +0000

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Flu vaccine reduces a child’s risk of flu-related intensive care hospitalization

amministratore — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:56:07 +0000

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Pandemic 2.0

TELL ME — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:19:08 +0000

The cases of human infection with influenza A(H7N9) virus reported in China cannot be called a pandemic. Up to now, there are no signs of human-to-human transmission, as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO). Nevertheless, there is a pandemic which is actually ongoing; we could call it web pandemic 2.0. And is something that does not come without risks.

The virus on the net

Exactly as it happened during the previous pandemic, in 2009, this event was intensely followed and commented about on the internet, particularly on social media.

Id card of the new avian flu virus

TELL ME — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:31:29 +0000

The genetic heritage of the new H7N9 influenza virus is 100% of bird origin; to this day April 16, 2013, this virus has caused 60 influenza cases and made 13 victims, at least according to official data provided by Chinese authorities. Spreading from the eastern regions around Shanghai, it has already reached Beijing. The in-depth genetic analysis of the first three cases, all of them fatal, described in the New England Journal of Medicine confirmed that all these viruses' genes, never reported before, are of avian origin.

Influenza A cases, of the H7 type, already infected humans in the past,

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Id card of the new avian flu virus

TELL ME — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:31:29 +0000

Influenza A cases, of the H7 type, already infected humans in the past,

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New flu virus is being watched closely by the social network

TELL ME — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:54:05 +0000

From the East comes not only the threat of a Korean nuclear attack but also worrying news from China of a new avian flu epidemic, provoked by a virus which had never before affected mankind, called H7N9. But exactly ten years after the SARS emergency, which brought on thousands of cases and hundreds of deaths throughout the world (amongst which the Italian medic Carlo Urbani, the first to have discovered the corona virus which is responsible for this flu), new technology is forcing authorities to radically change the way in which the situation is managed, obligating them to be more

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Relationships between climate and flu

TELL ME — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:25:18 +0000

Climate may have an influence on the spread of flu. This is the conclusion of a study from a team of American researchers, led by Cécile Viboud, from the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center, recently published on PLoS Pathogens.
The authors of the study assessed the role of specific humidity and other local climatic variables on influenza virus seasonality by examining the peaks of influenza virus activity in 78 sites sampled globally.

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Relationships between climate and flu

TELL ME — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:25:18 +0000

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