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Predicting influenza hospitalizations
Seasonal influenza epidemics are a major public health concern, causing three to five million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide. Given the unpredictability of these epidemics, hospitals and health authorities are often left unprepared to handle the sudden surge …
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Studies on inactivated influenza vaccines
It is, perhaps, ironical. that while influenza was probably the first animal virus to be studied in detail there is still little known concerning its behaviour. In many ways it represents a model of difficult immunization problems. Now that so many of the most lethal and dramatic of the infectious …
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International Externalities in Pandemic Influenza Mitigation
A serious influenza pandemic could be devastating for the world. Ideally, such a pandemic could be contained, but this may be infeasible. One promising method for pandemic mitigation is to treat infectious individuals with antiviral pharmaceuticals. While most of the benefits from treatment accrue …
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Epidemic influenza: its causation and prevention
PART ONE - MAINLY HISTORICAL: Influenza is a disease of the respiratory tract. It is characterised by an abrupt onset, pyrexia, ill defined muscular pains, and a serous or catarrhal discharge from the epithelium of the nose, pharynx, and bronchial tree. Economically it is important, as twenty per …
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Human adaptation of avian influenza viruses
Human adaptation of avian influenza viruses pose an enormous public health challenge as the human population is predominantly naive to avian influenza antigens. As such, constant surveillance is needed to monitor the circulating avian strains. Of particular importance are strains belonging to H5N1, …
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Optimization of influenza vaccine strain selection
… conclude that the WHO policy is a cost-effective influenza vaccine strain selection policy.
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Supply chain coordination and influenza vaccination
Annual influenza outbreaks incur great expenses in both human and monetary terms, and billions of dollars are being allocated for influenza pandemic preparedness in an attempt to avert even greater potential losses. Vaccination is a primary weapon for fighting influenza outbreaks. The influenza …
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Market incentives for pandemic influenza vaccines
… plus individuals could perish if a virulent influenza pandemic were to occur. In wake of the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic and in an era of economic austerity, however, industry lacks clear incentives to invest in vaccines for other high-risk strains. The cyclic nature of pandemics also means we can …
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Influenza A Virus Induced Programmed Cell Death
Influenza A viruses (IAV) are negative sense RNA viruses that naturally infect a wide variety of animals. Different subtypes of the virus infect waterfowl, poultry, pigs, horses, ferrets, bats, dogs, cats and humans, causing zoonotic outbreaks and pandemics. In humans, IAV strains cause seasonal …
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Optimization of influenza antiviral response in Texas
Influenza pandemics pose a serious threat to the global population. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services in 2014, the Spanish flu of 1918 killed almost 100 million people worldwide and Simonsen, Spreeuwenberg, and Lustig in 2013 estimated that the Swine flu more …
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Improving Influenza Compliance Using a Reminder System
… was to incorporate a reminder system to improve influenza compliance as the large metropolitan hospital is undergoing a decrease in the compliance of screening hospitalized at discharge. Improving the influenza compliance using a reminder system will assist healthcare professionals in …
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H5N1 Influenza Virus Induces a Parkinsonian Pathology
<p> The greatest threat for an influenza pandemic at this time is posed by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus. To date, 63% of the 436 known human cases of H5N1 infection have proven fatal. Animals infected by H5N1 viruses have demonstrated acute neurological signs ranging from mild …
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Universal room-temperature stable influenza A nanovaccine
Seasonal influenza A virus (IAV) is annually responsible for an estimated one billion infections, nine million hospitalizations, and 300,000 – 600,000 deaths annually. Considering the potential influenza pandemic threat, the development of a universal IAV vaccine is paramount to global public …
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Network and Algebraic Topology of Influenza Evolution
… years ago. In that same amount of time, an influenza virus, which replicates every six hours, would have undergone an equivalent number of generations over only a hundred years. The fast replication times of influenza, coupled with its high mutation rate, make the virus a perfect model to …
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Influenza della variabilità spaziale sul trasporto reattivo
… di simulazioni geostatistiche del mezzo; l'influenza della variabilità spaziale iniziale sull'evoluzione dei sistemi viene quantificata grazie ad opportune grandezze osservabili. Sono state studiate due reazioni distinte: un caso di dissoluzione, in maniera più approfondita, e più …
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Pathogenesis of Swine Influenza in Pregnant Gilts
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T21:33:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405716.pdf: 5654707 bytes, checksum: 06f85aa9f0e8908d5b221fbbb651c566 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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