Showing posts with label Immunity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Immunity. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Nature: Biological Features Of H7N9

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Credit CDC     # 7444     A study, published today in the Journal Nature , provides new insights into the H7N9 avian flu vi...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

CIDRAP: Children & Middle-Aged Most Susceptible To H3N2v

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Credit Wikipedia   # 6489   Robert Roos of CIDRAP has an excellent report on a study – published on Aug 7th in The Journal o...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Study: Initial Flu Dose Dictates Immune Response

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  H3N2 influenza virions – CDC PHIL   # 6408   There’s a popular belief that once you’ve had a particular strain of the flu, you...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

EID Journal: Revisiting The `Canadian Problem’

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  Photo Credit PHIL # 6267     In September of 2009, just as the second wave of the H1N1 pandemic was ramping up, news of an un...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Eurosurveillance: Older People May Be Susceptible To The H3N2v Virus

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    # 6104     The detection of a new swine H3N2v virus among a handful of people across five states in recent months has sparke...
Monday, March 07, 2011

Flu Vaccines & The Temporary Immunity Hypothesis

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    # 5359     Late last week several Australian newspapers carried press reports on concerns expressed by Peter Collignon , a Pro...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Of Mice and Men - And The Hygienic Hypothesis

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    # 5142     Note: The `Hygienic Hypothesis’ – while something I personally find fascinating to write about - remains an un...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Eurosurveillance: The Temporary Immunity Hypothesis

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    # 5092     In September of 2009, news of an ( at that time ) unpublished Canadian study began to surface that suggested that t...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Study: Eurosurveillance On `The Canadian Problem’

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    # 4728     It was called, euphemistically, the `Canadian Problem’ .   News of a controversial, yet unpublished, Canadian...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

NIAID: 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Protects Mice Against 1918 Flu Virus

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    # 4949     For quite some time we’ve recognized that many of those born before – say, 1957 – have some level of immunity a...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Study: Prior Immunity And Pandemic Waves

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    # 4595     One of the great mysteries about influenza pandemics is why illness seems to come in waves, sometimes separated ...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

An Unexpected Dividend

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    # 4522     Long ago, and in a galaxy far, far away . . . I was part of a national effort to immunize the country against a fe...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Referral: Effect Measure On The JAMA Herd Immunity Study

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      # 4420     This morning Revere over at Effect Measure takes a long look though epidemiologist’s eyes at the recently publ...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Study: Protective Immune Memory In Healthy Adults

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    # 4022   One of the ongoing mysteries surrounding the H1N1 pandemic is why some older adults seem to have limited immunity to...