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Swine Flu [PDF]

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 2009
The recent outbreak of human infection with a novel Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) virus is spreading rapidly through sustained human-to-human transmission in multiple countries. Human-to-human transmission occurs by inhalation of infectious droplets and droplet nuclei, and by direct contact, which is facilitated by air and land travel and social ...
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Defining the root cause of reduced H1N1 live attenuated influenza vaccine effectiveness: low viral fitness leads to inter-strain competition

npj Vaccines, 2021
In the 2013–14 and 2015–16 influenza seasons, reduced vaccine effectiveness (VE) was observed for the H1N1 component of the FluMist quadrivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine (QLAIV) in the USA, leading to loss of Advisory Committee on Immunization ...
Oliver Dibben, Jonathan Crowe, Shaun Cooper, Laura Hill, Katarzyna E. Schewe, Helen Bright   +5 more
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Bird flu and pandemic flu [PDF]

BMJ, 2005
What's the message for GPs and hospital doctors? T he extensive media coverage of avian influenza (bird flu) over recent weeks has caused confusion and increasing concern that bird flu will imminently cause a human pandemic. This has been fuelled by the report of a parrot infected by the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in the United Kingdom this week.
John T, Macfarlane, Wei Shen, Lim
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Prevalence of Covid-19 Associated Symptoms, Their Onset and Duration, and Variations Among Different Groups of Patients in Bangladesh

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Objective: This study aimed to assess the prevalence, onset, and duration of COVID-19 associated symptoms, hospitalization, and recovery time from the infection in Bangladesh.Methods: A retrospective study was designed adopting the snowball sampling ...
Md. Tanzilul Amin, Mahmud Hasan, N. M. Mahmudul Alam Bhuiya   +2 more
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Repurposing a SARS-CoV-2 surveillance program for infectious respiratory diseases in a university setting

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Standard multiplex RT-qPCR diagnostic tests use nasopharyngeal swabs to simultaneously detect a variety of infections, but commercially available kits can be expensive and have limited throughput.
Kylie L. King, Kylie L. King, Rachel Ham, Austin Smothers, Austin Smothers, Isaac Lee, Tyler Bowie, Erika Teetsel, Congyue Peng, Congyue Peng, Delphine Dean, Delphine Dean   +11 more
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Lung function, allergic sensitization and asthma in school-aged children after viral-coinfection bronchiolitis

Scientific Reports, 2022
Our main objective was to compare the lung function, the rate of allergic sensitization and the prevalence of asthma at 7–9 years in children hospitalized for bronchiolitis with viral coinfection versus single viral infection.
Sara Ruiz, Cristina Calvo, Francisco Pozo, Inmaculada Casas, María Luz García-García   +4 more
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Severity of heterosubtypic influenza virus infection in ferrets is reduced by live attenuated influenza vaccine

npj Vaccines, 2021
Live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) is widely used to protect humans from seasonal influenza infection, particularly in children. In contrast to inactivated vaccines, the LAIV can induce both mucosal and cellular immune responses.
Anthony C. Marriott, Karen E. Gooch, Phillip J. Brown, Kathryn A. Ryan, Nicola J. Jones, Natasha Merredew, Nathan Wiblin, Oliver Dibben, Helen Bright, Bassam Hallis, Catherine J. Whittaker, Miles W. Carroll   +11 more
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Jurnal Fisika Flux, 2020
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Baloxavir marboxil as a therapeutic option to treat influenza in Poland. [PDF]

Farmacja Polska, 2020
Searching for new drugs for the treatment of influenza is important due to the epidemiological significance of this disease entity, affecting a significant percentage of people around the world.
Michał Mazuchowski, Łukasz Puchała
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Flu frames [PDF]

Sociology of Health & Illness, 2013
AbstractThis article investigates how the frame concept was used in media studies of the 2009 flu pandemic representation. It examines how frame (or framing) analysis has illuminated sociological features of these depictions and how the frame concept facilitated an analytic understanding of media representations.
Staniland, KM, Smith, GWH
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