“It does not protect as promoted. It’s all a sales job: it’s all public relations.”
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Reassessing Flu Shots as the Season Draws Near - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“I say, ‘Use this vaccine,’ ” he said. “The safety profile is actually quite good. But we have oversold it. Use it — but just know it’s not going to work nearly as well as everyone says.”
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“Does it work as well as the measles vaccine? No, and it’s not likely to. But the vaccine works,” Dr. Joseph Bresee, chief of epidemiology and prevention in the C.D.C.’s influenza division, said. And research is advancing to improve the effectiveness of the vaccine.
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CDC - Seasonal Influenza (Flu) - Guidance for Clinicians on the Use of Rapid Influenza ... - 0 views
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Sensitivities of RIDTs are generally 40-70%, but a range of 10-80% has been reported compared to viral culture or RT-PCR. Specificities of RIDTs are approximately 90-95% (range 85-100%). Thus false negative results occur more commonly than false positive results.
The virus grower : Nature News - 0 views
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Profile of how Doris Bucher's lab prepares influenza seed stocks for vaccines.
Potential novel treatment for influenza discovered: Scientists pursue new therapies as ... - 0 views
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latest deadly strain of flu, H7N9, is spreading in China -- 82 people in China had been infected with the new strain of flu virus as of April 26, and 17 had died.
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result of an immune reaction mediated by a protein called Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4).
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Currently, vaccines and antiviral medications are the two main approaches to preventing influenza
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I thought it was interesting that antiviral medications should be administered within two days of infection in order to be effective. This really outlines the need for more effective treatments since this is a very short time frame and there is an increasing resistance to these antiviral therapies in general.
5 Free Influenza Fighting Apps For Facebook, Android & Twitter - 1 views
Reassessing Flu Shots as the Season Draws Near - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“We have overpromoted and overhyped this vaccine,” said Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, as well as its Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance. “It does not protect as promoted. It’s all a sales job: it’s all public relations.”
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He still considers himself a “a pro-vaccine guy,” Dr. Osterholm said.
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“I say, ‘Use this vaccine,’ ” he said. “The safety profile is actually quite good. But we have oversold it. Use it — but just know it’s not going to work nearly as well as everyone says.”
Mutant Bird Flu Research Regulated by New Policies | Avian Influenza | LiveScience - 1 views
Really? The Claim: Hand Sanitizer Stops Norovirus Spread - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Some viruses, like influenza, are coated in lipids, “envelopes” that alcohol can rupture.
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Which are more resistant to dessication, enveloped or naked viruses?
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A viral grappling hook: Flu virus attacks like a pirate boarding party - 1 views
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The flu virus carries about 300 to 400 of these hooks and virologists had known that several are needed to fuse the membranes. 4 hooks has recently been identified as the number of hooks required to pull the two membranes together. Without the attachment of 4 hooks the virus is vulnerable to inhibitors which will prevent fusion.
Could new flu spark global flu pandemic? New bird flu strain seen adapting to mammals, ... - 0 views
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"The human isolates, but not the avian and environmental ones, have a protein mutation that allows for efficient growth in human cells and that also allows them to grow at a temperature that corresponds to the upper respiratory tract of humans, which is lower than you find in birds,
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These are the same researchers who did the infamous bird flu study that was temporarily banned
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new virus has sickened at least 33 people, killing nine.
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Genetic sequencing of the current H7N9 outbreak in China has revealed the ability of the virus to adapt to a human host