Like Halloween decorations, flu shots are available a lot earlier this year. And doctors are encouraging everyone who can to get vaccinated. It takes about two weeks after vaccination to build immunity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
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Flu shots for kids protect everybody, study shows
(HealthDay)—When elementary school students get their annual flu shot, everyone benefits, a new study shows. An increased vaccination rate among grade schoolers in California was associated with a decrease in flu hospitalizations for folks in every other age bracket, researchers…
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Amid COVID-19 crisis, flu shot makers see record US production
Global influenza vaccine makers have produced a record number of doses for the coming flu season, as authorities try to ease the burden on hospitals ahead of an expected COVID-19 resurgence. In the US, pharmaceutical companies plan to make around…
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Discovery of new immune targets inside flu virus offers hope for universal vaccine
New markers hidden inside the influenza virus have been discovered by scientists at Cardiff University. The researchers from the School of Medicine worked with an international team of experts—including collaborators in Moscow, Russia and Melbourne, Australia—to look at how people’s…
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New swine flu strain found in China poses threat of pandemic
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in China and one in the U.S. has found evidence of a new strain of swine flu that poses a possible threat to humans. In their paper published in Proceedings…
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Compare the flu pandemic of 1918 and COVID-19 with caution – the past is not a prediction
People have turned to historical experience with influenza pandemics to try to make sense of COVID-19, and for good reason. Influenza and coronavirus share basic similarities in the way they’re transmitted via respiratory droplets and the surfaces they land on….
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Flu researchers say we should make a NEW antiviral to stop coronavirus
Flu researchers say we should make a NEW antiviral to prevent coronavirus from replicating throughout the body and stop focusing on repurposing old drugs Researchers looked an older treatment for the flu, Tamiflu, and a newer treatment, Xofluza, the first…
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