Although the technique has so far only been demonstrated for the flu and in the social milieu of a university, the researchers nevertheless think that it could help predict other infectious diseases and do so on a larger scale, such as in cities and across regions.
As a result, the U.S. may only have half the vaccine it needs--too much for Aventis Pasteur, the only other maker of flu vaccine, to make up for on short notice.
Yet in the event of a flu pandemic they are the only weapon available for treating patients in the months before a vaccine can be developed.
However, he thinks any sales boost from the planned swine flu vaccine will last only as long as the threat.
For example, the state of Maine has only regional activity according to flu cases reported to the agency but high activity according Google Flu.
Health officials had returned to Edgar's sample only after cases of the new flu strain were spotted around the country.
The only states without widespread flu were California, Hawaii and Mississippi.
Before we realized how mild it was, people were desperately snapping up stores of Tamiflu, an anti-viral medicine that only barely helps to treat the flu.
In a contrast to U.S. policy, the World Health Organization recommends only six "priority populations" get "the flu jab, " as it's called in Britain.
But during the 2011-2012 flu season, only 47% opted to get vaccinated, according to the CDC.
Patients receiving the vaccine did not need to be hospitalised, and the only side effects they suffered were some flu-like symptoms and several days of redness and itching where the injection was given.
In addition, while this year's vaccine was considered a good match for the most common circulating flu viruses, it only provided 47% protection against H3N2, the main virus.
The flu vaccine is only about 60% effective, according to the CDC.
Unluckily for the town's winter sports, swine flu is expected to die down only when the snow melts.
The actors on any number of indistinguishable cop shows are entertaining, affable, gruff or quirky, but I'd turn to "The Good Wife's" long-term development any day ... and the only reason I got hooked on it is because I spent a flu-ridden week catching up on the first two seasons.
The PHA is expected to release details of swine flu deaths every Thursday after previously insisting it was only obliged to publicise the information when the virus reached pandemic status.
And many Kurdish villagers do not understand Turkish, the only language used in many warnings about bird flu.
So far, the new, deadlier flu strains exist only in laboratories, of course.
The recent discovery that the 1918 flu outbreak, which killed 50 million people, was caused by an avian flu that moved to humans only worsens the anxiety.
The company running the experiment, VaxInnate, a closely held biotech firm, is working on technology that could derive in only six weeks a new vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, the virus causing the global scare.
The archaic technology for making them, which involves injecting influenza virus into chicken eggs and separating out the resulting antibodies, only allows for a few flu strains to be included and they must be picked far in advance.
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"I ... would like to remind people that in 1918 the Spanish flu showed a surge in the spring, and then disappeared in the summer months, only to return in the autumn of 1918 with a vengeance, " Hartl said.
Public health officials are simply assuming that anyone with flu symptoms has swine flu, because it's the only form of the virus in circulation, he said.
Slippery Rock University isn't the only school making changes to graduation ceremonies because of swine flu fears.
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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Only 32 states are currently reporting widespread H1N1 flu activity in the United States, down from 48 states three weeks ago, federal health officials said Monday.
Vaccinated people in that age group had only a 9 percent lower chance of going to the doctor with flu symptoms from the main virus than people who didn't get the shot.
Even though it only prevents six out of 10 people who would have gotten the flu from getting sick, it still dramatically slows the spread of the virus and drops your chances of getting ill.
For instance, a model that you can only do with supercomputers to have the next generation vaccine to kill avian flu--this is a project we're partnered with E.
Last year, the U.S. flu shot market was so unappealing that only two players were producing injectable vaccine--leading to a serious shortage when one of them, Chiron, had to shut down its plant.
Getzlaf could barely get out of bed with a case of the flu, lasting just five minutes at the morning skate and taking only one faceoff during the game.
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