Showing posts with label antigenic drift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antigenic drift. Show all posts
Monday, December 22, 2014

ECDC Rapid Risk Assessment On `Drifted’ H3N2 Viruses

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Credit NIAID     # 9474   While we often talk about seasonal strains (H1N1, H3N2, Influenza B) as if they were individual entiti...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

CDC HAN Advisory On `Drifted’ H3N2 Seasonal Flu Virus

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# 9408   Late yesterday the CDC issued a HAN Advisory for clinicians on the possibility of seeing ` drifted’ H3N2 virus infections ...
Sunday, November 02, 2014

A `Drift’ In A Sea Of Influenza Viruses

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P&I Mortality Surveillance by Week & Year - CDC   # 9278   There is always a degree of folly attached to trying to predi...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Study: Sequence & Phylogenetic Analysis Of Emerging H9N2 influenza Viruses In China

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Poultry Vaccination - Photo Credit OIE   # 8425   Among the avian flu viruses we watch with concern, the H5N1 and H7N9 viruses ha...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

EID Journal: The Expanding Variants Of H5N1

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Photo Credit NIAID # 7957     Influenza A subtypes are categorized by two proteins they carry on their surface; their HA (hem...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Hong Kong’s Extended Flu Season

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      # 6393     As previously mentioned in this blog (see Hong Kong: Flu Activity Continues To Rise ), while influenza activit...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

NIAID Video: Antigenic Drift

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    # 6288     NIAID , part of the NIH , has just released a short ( 3 minute ) video that nicely illustrates how flu viruses c...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

M Is For Mutation

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      # 5812     I usually try to avoid using the word ` Mutant ’ or `Mutation’ in my blog titles about flu because, strictly s...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Review: Evolution & Adaptation Of The 2009 pdmH1N1 Virus

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    # 5704   A comprehensive review today of the history - and possible future evolution - of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus, by Rich...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

NIAID Scientists Propose New Explanation for Flu Virus Antigenic Drift

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  # 3907   NIH News released the following report a couple of hours ago, describing new research into how flu viruses mutate and d...