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The First Flu You Caught as a Child May Determine Future Immunity
Researchers are still unsure of all the details as to what this may mean going forward, but they may have shed some new light on how we develop long-term immunity against influenza strains. More specifically, they’ve linked the strongest immune responses to the variants we were exposed to as children. Different Influenza Strains - Up until 1957, H1N1 was the only known -flu virus strain- in humans....
April 23, 2021
New Arrival Could Put Flu in Its Place
The yearly battle against the flu claims at least -20,000 US lives- each year, -putting 225,000 people in the hospital- and infecting up to 50 million in total. Antiviral drugs can tip the scales, but antiviral resistance threatens every bit of progress we’ve made against this fast-mutating group of pathogens. But a possible new medication could shift the balance back in our favor. Antiviral Resistance...
October 21, 2020
WHO Releases List of Top 10 Threats to Global Health
Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) compiles a list of the world’s most significant health threats in the hopes of finding ways to solve them. This year’s greatest threats to global health are: - 1. Air pollution - 2. Lifestyle-related deaths - 3. Influenza - 4. Poor living conditions - 5. Antimicrobial resistance - 6. High-threat pathogens - 7. Poor primary healthcare - 8. Vaccine hesitancy...
March 4, 2019
What You Need to Know About This Year's Flu Crisis
Written By: - GreenMedInfo Research Group - A provocative new study on flu virus transmission found that subjects had 6.3 times more aerosol shedding of flu virus particles if they received vaccination in the current and previous season compared with having no vaccination in those two seasons. Vaccination is predicated on the rarely questioned belief that it confers bona fide immunity against targeted...
January 30, 2018