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[Everything Swine Flu] How many Americans have caught H1N1? “At least 63 million”: In the fall, a second wave of pandemic H1N1 swept through the United States, peaking in most parts of the country by mid October and returning to baseline levels by early December. The objective was to determine the seroprevalence of antibodies against the pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza strain by decade of birth among Pittsburgh-area residents. 

[Flu News Network] China: A stream is in Guangdong in children with symptoms of ...: A Beijing residents who wish to voice a journalist to reveal, Xuanwu District Public Security Bureau two police officers hospitalized because of flu, his condition deteriorated very quickly, “pretty weird and suddenly there are two days cough, can not stand, and to the hospital would have lost plasma , quite severe. “reporter called Xuanwu District Public Security Bureau asked on duty to avoid did not answer.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Prevalence of Antibodies against Avian Influenza ...: Our finding of no serologic evidence of asymptomatic or mild influenza (H5N1) infection among Thai villagers is consistent with findings from smaller influenza virus (H5N1) seroprevalence studies among workers in live poultry markets .It means additional "mixing vessels" where avian flu and swine flu could reassort and emerge, infecting pigs, birds and, potentially, people.

[ScienceBlogs Channel : Medicine & Health] Predicting swine flu in the fall: nothing is obvious : Effect Measure: This particular comment in the original essay really jumped out at me:"There are some serious technical difficulties on how this impact is estimated (see our post here), but it is measured in excess mortality, not actual mortality from flu (which is not determinable with current data)" Let me raise a hypothetical, then, IF a particular year in the US were one with several very severe winter storms, that is, events with icy roads, deep snow, power failures, supply delivery failures... AND then a serious number of somewhat older citizens died due to falls, lack of heat, traffic accidents on black ice, and so on, would those numbers automatically contribute to any "excess mortality" for that particular flu season?

[Nature Precedings] Swine Influenza A Evolution via Recombination - Genetic Drift ...: Thus, the swine sequences in the above pre-print, as well as the human H3N2 sequences, contain contemporary genes that have acquired evolutionarily conserved sequences which match those in circulation a decade or more earlier. Each dataset includes multiple isolates which share cross-over points, greatly reducing the likelihood that the sequence data are due to lab contamination, and supports the observation that such sequences are generated by homologous recombination.

[News from THE] Times Higher Education - Unclear outlook for radical journal as ...: For example, $47 million of health aid is spent on HIV/AIDS programmes even though the prevalence is low by sub-Saharan African standards, whereas only $1 million is spent on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness programme, in a country where one in every seven children dies before the age of 5 years.14 The difficulty with project aid is that it is short term, unpredictable, and can cause very uneven spread of aid.--www.thelancet.com Published online July 10, 2008 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60962-9 --- An interesting anecdote was hearing, from a long term employee of Save the Children UK in Kigali, where I visit annually, tell me that 35% of children in the villages are malnourished. THERE ARE OVER 2000 AIDS NGOs registered in tiny Rwanda.

[chinapharm 的博客] BIT Life Sciences' 2nd Annual World Summit of Antivirals 2009: Title: Efficacious Recombinant Avian Flu Vaccine Produced By High Yield Bacterial Expression. Dr. Langzhou Song, Sr. Research Scientist, Molecular Biology and Protein Science, VaxInnate Corporation, USA. 11:25-11:50 ...

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