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Why the seasonal influenza immunity does not help?
Due to vaccinations and seasonal influenza occurrence every year people in US are mostly immune. Immunity means where in the body produces certain specialized proteins called antibodies in response to a typical virus. These antibodies once formed in the body are able to detect and destroy the virus once they attack our body again. The antibodies are known to work on the principle of recognizing the proteins on the outer covering of the virus and initiating reactions against it. The new form i.e. the novel H1N1 virus has modified its protein structure which can easily escape the existing antibodies for the seasonal influenza virus and leads to infection.
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Latest News On Swine Flu
A paper published Tuesday by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control suggests a new swine flu virus has the potential to cause an outbreak. The A(H3N2)v swine flu strain that has infected at least 18 Americans since Sept. 2010 has shown ...
Thirty-three cases of narcolepsy have been reported in Skåne after Sweden's massive vaccination campaign against swine flu in 2009. The southern region has been unusually hard struck by the vaccine Pandemrix's side effects. Relative to population size ...
A total of six lives were saved by Sweden's massive swine flu vaccination programme, according to a new report, despite 60 percent of the Swedish population getting vaccinated. In Sweden, 60 percent of the population was vaccinated against the swine flu in ...
A mum whose toddler and unborn child were killed by swine flu has given birth to a daughter. Gemma Ameen, 29, has named the baby Lian. She was born four weeks early weighing 5lb 1oz. In December 2010, Lana, three, died within 48 hours of developing symptoms.
AIDS, Ebola, avian flu, swine flu. All threatening diseases stemming from terrifying viruses that spread quickly and have infected hundreds of millions of people around the world. All started in animals, mutated, jumped to humans and became pandemics.
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