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Dr. John Bureau DC

Face Protection Effective In Preventing The Spread Of Influenza, Study Suggests - 0 views

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  • ScienceDaily (May 22, 2009) — A new article in the journal Risk Analysis assessed various ways in which aerosol transmission of the flu, a central mode of diffusion which involves breathing droplets in the air, can be reduced. Results show that face protection is a key infection control measure for influenza and can thus affect how people should try to protect themselves from the swine flu. See also: Health & Medicine Cold and Flu Influenza Bird Flu Plants & Animals Bird Flu Research Virology Developmental Biology Reference Flu vaccine Influenza pandemic Transmission (medicine) Avian flu Lawrence M. Wein, Ph.D., and Michael P. Atkinson of Stanford University constructed a mathematical model of aerosol transmission of the flu to explore infection control measures in the home. Their model predicted that the use of face protection including N95 respirators (these fit tight around the face and are often worn by construction workers) and surgical masks (these fit looser around the face and are often worn by dental hygienists) are effective in preventing the flu. The filters in surgical masks keep out 98 percent of the virus. Also, only 30 percent of the benefits of the respirators and masks are achieved if they are used only after an infected person develops symptoms. "Our research aids in the understanding of the efficacy of infection control measures for influenza, and provides a framework about the routes of transmission," the authors conclude. This timely article has the potential to impact current efforts and recommendations to control the so-called swine flu by international, national and local governments in perspective. This study is published in the journal Risk Analysis.
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  • Dr. John Bureau DC on 25 May 09
     
    ScienceDaily (May 22, 2009) - A new article in the journal Risk Analysis assessed various ways in which aerosol transmission of the flu, a central mode of diffusion which involves breathing droplets in the air, can be reduced. Results show that face protection is a key infection control measure for influenza and can thus affect how people should try to protect themselves from the swine flu. Lawrence M. Wein, Ph.D., and Michael P. Atkinson of Stanford University constructed a mathematical model of aerosol transmission of the flu to explore infection control measures in the home. Their model predicted that the use of face protection including N95 respirators (these fit tight around the face and are often worn by construction workers) and surgical masks (these fit looser around the face and are often worn by dental hygienists) are effective in preventing the flu. The filters in surgical masks keep out 98 percent of the virus. Also, only 30 percent of the benefits of the respirators and masks are achieved if they are used only after an infected person develops symptoms. "Our research aids in the understanding of the efficacy of infection control measures for influenza, and provides a framework about the routes of transmission," the authors conclude. This timely article has the potential to impact current efforts and recommendations to control the so-called swine flu by international, national and local governments in perspective. This study is published in the journal Risk Analysis.
Matti Narkia

CIDRAP >> Researchers find antibody that fights H5N1, seasonal flu strains - 0 views

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2009 February news influenza antibody seasonal pandemic avian H5N1 vaccine passive immunotherap passive_immunotherapy medcine Dana-Farber Dana-Farber_Cancer_Center

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    Feb 23, 2009 (CIDRAP News) - In a development that could create new tools to prevent and treat seasonal and pandemic influenza, researchers have identified and tested human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that can neutralize influenza A viruses, including lethal H5N1 avian influenza.\n\nThe findings raise hopes for a universal flu vaccine and shed light on new options for preventing and treating influenza infections, researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported yesterday in an early online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. The study was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Dr. John Bureau DC

Swine Flu: Influenza A (H1N1) Susceptibility Linked To Common Levels Of Arsenic Exposure - 0 views

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  • ScienceDaily (May 21, 2009) — The ability to mount an immune response to influenza A (H1N1) infection is significantly compromised by a low level of arsenic exposure that commonly occurs through drinking contaminated well water, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and Dartmouth Medical School have found. See also: Health & Medicine Immune System Swine Flu Influenza Earth & Climate Hazardous Waste Water Environmental Issues Reference Flu vaccine Pandemic Heat shock protein Avian flu Joshua Hamilton, the MBL's Chief Academic and Scientific Officer and a senior scientist in the MBL's Bay Paul Center; graduate student Courtney Kozul of Dartmouth Medical School, where the work was conducted; and their colleagues report their findings in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
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    ScienceDaily (May 21, 2009) - The ability to mount an immune response to influenza A (H1N1) infection is significantly compromised by a low level of arsenic exposure that commonly occurs through drinking contaminated well water, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and Dartmouth Medical School have found. Joshua Hamilton, the MBL's Chief Academic and Scientific Officer and a senior scientist in the MBL's Bay Paul Center; graduate student Courtney Kozul of Dartmouth Medical School, where the work was conducted; and their colleagues report their findings in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Matti Narkia

Pascal's Wager and Pandemic Influenza - Vitamin D Newsletter Nov 2005 - 0 views

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2005 November vitamindcouncil newsletter vitamin D vitamin_D epidemic influenza health nutrition latitude pandemic season timing sunlight prevention supplementation dosing dosage doses

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    EPIDEMICS' TIMING DETERMINED BY LATITUDEGoing back to 1945, Hope-Simpson discovered that influenza epidemics above 30 degrees latitude in both hemispheres occurred during the six months of least solar radiation and that outbreaks in the tropics almost always occured during the rainy season. He thus concluded, "Latitude alone broadly determines the timing of the epidemics in the annual cycle, a relationship that suggests a rather direct effect of some component of solar radiation acting positively or negatively upon the virus, the human host, or their interaction." That is, something may be regularly reducing our immunity every fall and winter. In 2003 researchers confirmed that influenza epidemics in the tropics occur, with few exceptions, during the rainy season, when vitamin D levels should be falling
Matti Narkia

Crucell's Revolutionary Antibody for Universal Therapy Against Flu - 0 views

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2009 February CNN news influenza antibody novel new anti-influenza seasonal pandemic medicine health Crucell CR6261

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    Leiden, The Netherlands (February 26, 2009) - Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell N.V. (Euronext, Nasdaq: CRXL; Swiss Exchange: CRX) announces that the journal Science today published a study showing why Crucell's novel anti-influenza antibody is so effective against such a broad range of influenza virus subtypes. These characteristics make the Crucell antibody CR6261 a potentially revolutionary therapy against seasonal and pandemic flu.
Matti Narkia

Vitamin D Newsletter March 2009 | All Things Vitamin D - 0 views

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    This is a very long newsletter. I will answer questions about oil versus water-soluble Vitamin D, depression, mental clarity, malignant melanoma, Crohn's disease, an imagist poet, multiple sclerosis, sun-exposure, high-intensity red light and collagen repair in the skin, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, influenza, the 1918 influenza pandemic, statins, the new Food and Nutrition Board, thyroid disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, athletes, the upcoming 14th Vitamin D Workshop, prostate cancer, the wrong blood test, pregnancy, autism, Alzheimer's disease, soap and sebum, asthma, sleep, the co-factors vitamin D needs to work (all contained in spinach), and-my favorite-UVC light and Vitamin D
Matti Narkia

On the epidemiology of influenza - Virology Journal | Full text - 0 views

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2008 Februarr study review influenza epidemiology epidemic vitamin D vitamin_D Cannell Garland Giovannucci innate immunity innate immunity innate_immunity epidemics immune_system nutrition medline prevention supplementation doses dosing dosage

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    On the epidemiology of influenza. Cannell JJ, Zasloff M, Garland CF, Scragg R, Giovannucci E. Virol J. 2008 Feb 25;5:29. Review. PMID: 18298852 doi:10.1186/1743-422X-5-29
Matti Narkia

Epidemic influenza and vitamin D - CJO - Abstract - 0 views

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2006 nutrition medicine sun sunshine uvb influenza Epidemic science study review Vieth Holick vitamin D vitamin_D Cannell Giovannucci Garland Grant

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    Cannell JJ, Vieth R, Umhau JC, Holick MF, Grant WB, Madronich S, Garland CF, Giovannucci E. Epidemic influenza and vitamin D.Epidemiol Infect. 2006 Dec;134(6):1129-40. Epub 2006 Sep 7.PMID: 16959053 doi:10.1017/S0950268806007175
Graham Perrin

HPA - Swine Influenza Advice for the Public - 0 views

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  • monitor your health closely for seven days after your visit
  • If during this period you develop a feverish illness
  • accompanied by one or more of cough, sore throat, headache and muscle aches
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  • tell those from whom you are seeking advice about your recent travel to an area affected
  • standard respiratory and hand hygiene
  • avoid contact with other people
  • cover your nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing, using a tissue when possible
  • promptly and carefully
  • washing hands frequently with soap and water
  • good basic hygiene
  • Clean hard surfaces
  • normal cleaning product
  • Make sure your children follow this advice
  • similar to the symptoms of regular human seasonal influenza
  • include fever, fatigue, lack of appetite, coughing and sore throat
  • can be treated with the antivirals oseltamavir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza)
Graham Perrin

WHO | Swine influenza - 0 views

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  • WHO is coordinating the global response to human cases
  • monitoring the corresponding threat
  • Swine influenza questions and answers
Matti Narkia

The antibiotic vitamin: deficiency in vitamin D may predispose people to infection | Sc... - 0 views

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2006 November news vitamin D vitamin_D deficiency low_levels low levels infection influenza epidemic Cannell cathelicidin nutrition antimicrobial immunity immune_system supplementation calcitriol

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    In the July 2005 FASEB Journal, Adrian F. Gombart of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his colleagues reported that vitamin D boosts production in white blood cells of one of the antimicrobial compounds that defends the body against germs.\n\nImmediately, Cannell says, the proverbial lightbulb went on in his head: Maybe the high doses of vitamin D that he had been prescribing to virtually all the men on his ward had boosted their natural arsenal of the antimicrobial, called cathelicidin, and protected them from flu. Cannell had been administering the vitamin D because his patients, like many other people in the industrial world, had shown a deficiency:
Matti Narkia

Second team finds natural super flu fighter - 0 views

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2006 February reuters news influenza antibody second team medicine seasonal pandemic avian H5N1 Crucell passive immunotherapy passive_immunotherapy vaccine vaccines

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    WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - An antibody being developed by a Dutch drug company chokes off both seasonal flu and the H5N1 avian flu virus and might offer a way to develop better treatments and vaccines, researchers reported on Thursday.
Graham Perrin

HPA - Swine Influenza - 0 views

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  • monitoring this situation
  • working with the UK government
Matti Narkia

Supplementation with active hexose correlated compound increases survival following inf... - 0 views

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2008 September study review in_vivo active_hexose_correlated_compound AHCC mushroom mushrooms extraact herb herbs nutrition medline infection influenza MRSA supplementation immune function system immunity survival mice

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    Supplementation with active hexose correlated compound increases survival following infectious challenge in mice. Ritz BW. Nutr Rev. 2008 Sep;66(9):526-31. Review. PMID: 18752476 DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2008.00085.x
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