The World Is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary
As a virus scientist in South Africa, I’ve been watching with dread as H5N1 bird flu spreads among animals in the United ...
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The 1918 Pandemic's Death-by-Age Curve Closely Tracks the Peaks and Valleys of H3 Antibodies (IMAGE)
The researchers found a remarkable overlap between death rates in various age groups in 1918 and childhood exposure to an H3 influenza virus mismatched in its major antigenic protein to the H1 ...
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Feds push farmworker vaccines to prevent bird, seasonal flus from mingling
He pointed to an example in 2009 where the H1 virus, a close cousin of the currently circulating H5 virus, was thought to have emerged from a genetic reassortment of influenza A in pigs.
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Lessons from the 1918 influenza
Recent studies of the 1918 influenza virus shed light on the risks of avian ... However, the mechanism of binding-preference shift observed in H1 and H3 hemagglutinin may not be structurally ...