For more information please consult the Influenza A(H1N1) website of the World Health Organization.
The ScanaFlu can test for Strep A, Influenza A, Influenza B, Adenovirus and RSV.
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Experiments in Germany tested 22 flavonoids on human lung cells infected with the H5N1 influenza A virus.
H3N2 viruses are a subgroup of influenza A viruses, and they are known to adapt in humans.
Tamiflu is one which is widely prescribed by many physicians and has efficacy against Influenza A and B.
H3N2 viruses are a subgroup of influenza A viruses and they are known to adapt in humans, Bresee said.
These recommendations are prudent measures which can limit the spread of many communicable diseases and not only influenza A(H1N1).
The World Health Organization declared the virus, also known as the novel influenza A(H1N1), a global pandemic June 11.
Influenza A(H1N1) has already been confirmed in many parts of the world.
Studies conducted at the University of Southampton have found that copper alloys can kill a range of viruses, including the dreaded influenza A H1N1.
This year's North American vaccine is made from three viruses: two types of influenza A virus (H3N2 and H1N1) and an influenza B virus.
As of January 5, the CDC said Friday, the predominant virus in the United States was an influenza A (H3N2) virus that matched well with the H3N2 virus represented in the vaccine.
The group remains quarantined at home, and Health Minister Tony Ryall said 10 students tested positive for influenza A -- the general category of strains that includes the H1N1 swine flu.
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To date, the CDC has not found any incidence of Influenza A or B resistance to the two main anti-viral medications given to patients within the first 48 hours of infection: oseltamivir and zanamivir.
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Of the viruses collected and tested in the United States in early January, 20.2% were influenza B and the rest were influenza A -- the vast majority of which appeared to be of the H3 variety, according to the CDC.
The virus that is contagious between humans does not yet exist (or it may just have come into being inside a young person in China who contacted both vH7N9 and a human influenza A virus to which they were not immune).
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The children were infected with a virus known as swine influenza A H1N1, which has a unique combination of genes not previously seen in flu viruses in either humans or swine - although it shares similarities with a virus that has been circulating in pigs since 1999.
Swine flu is a respiratory disease which is caused by a strain of the influenza type A virus known as H1N1.
The new virus has genes from North American swine influenza, avian influenza, human influenza and a form of swine influenza normally found in Asia and Europe, said Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC's Influenza Division.
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Unlike cold viruses, which have been tested in humans, influenza is a potentially deadly virus.
The CDC recommends that health-care workers in close contact with people with suspected or confirmed H1N1 influenza use a properly fitted, disposable N95 respirator, or something that offers similar or better protection.
Two common gut bacteria, Escherichia coli and Helicobacter pylori, and also the influenza-A virus, are particularly adept at playing the evasive game of molecular mimicry, and the team is now looking at possible connections between different gut bacteria and autoantibodies against melanocortins to see if they can pin down which, if any, of these bugs might be responsible.
They then subdivided the groups and infected the resulting subgroups with either H3N1, a mild strain of influenza, or H1N1, a virulent strain.
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The preponderance of the evidence points toward influenza vaccination as a beneficial public health measure.
Swine flu is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza, according to the CDC.
It is caused by a type-A influenza virus.
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Many scientists within the influenza community have a bona fide need to know the details of this research in order to protect the public, especially if they currently are working with related strains of the virus.
Flavonoids and flu: Two plant-based flavonoids disease-fighting compounds found in many foods significantly impaired the infectious activity of H5N1 avian-flu virus in laboratory experiments and may form the basis of future influenza treatments, a report in Antiviral Research says.
The reason for that is that the influenza virus has a rapid rate of mutation, forcing companies that manufacture the vaccine to make their best guess as to which flu types will be more prevalent in a given season.
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