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Genetics and Health

Archive for the ‘Flu’ Category

April 20th, 2008

Flu resevoir in Southern Asia source of flu virus evolution and dispersal

H3N2 flu virus (Courtesy www.primidi.com) 
Each year, somewhere between five and 15 percent of the world’s population becomes infected during influenza A epidemics. These flu outbreaks are linked to as many as a half a million deaths annually, according to WHO. While vaccinations can be effective, influenza viruses often evolve so rapidly that creating effective vaccines […]

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March 3rd, 2008

Flu virus has ‘coat’ which melts in the summer and makes it less virulent

(Photo credit: Flu viruses among cilia - National Geographic magazine http://www.nationalgeographic.com/)
US scientists have discovered a possible reason why the flu virus is seasonal and tends to infect people mostly in the winter. It has a jacket that melts in the summer causing the virus to die off, and stays hard in the winter, until it […]

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