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H1N1 Discovery Paves Way For Universal Flu Vaccine
05/09/2012 09:00 AM
University of British Columbia researchers have found a potential way to develop universal flu vaccines and eliminate the need for seasonal flu vaccinations. Each year, seasonal influenza causes serious illnesses in three to five million people and 200,000 to 500,000 deaths. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic killed more than 14,000 people worldwide...
Age, Flu And Resistance
04/13/2012 08:00 AM
There is a connection between age and susceptibility to the influenza virus. It can't be explained by frailty in general, because it is not obvious that very small children and the very old are the biggest risk groups...
Study Identifies Genetic Regulators Hijacked By Avian And Swine Flu Viruses
03/31/2012 08:00 AM
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have identified a number of tiny but powerful "genetic regulators" that are hijacked by avian and swine flu viruses during human infection. The discovery, published in the Journal of Virology, could reveal new targets for broad-spectrum antivirals to combat current - and perhaps future - strains of influenza A viruses...
Microfluidic Chip Developed To Stem Flu Outbreaks
03/29/2012 08:00 AM
The H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 underscored weaknesses in methods widely used to diagnose the flu, from frequent false negatives to long wait times for results...
Gene Explains Why Flu Can Be Serious
03/26/2012 11:00 AM
People with a rare variant of a gene that codes for an anti-viral protein are more likely to end up in hospital seriously ill when they get the flu than others who carry other variants, according to new research led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK that was published in Nature on Sunday...
