influenza
In the last decade, Ben has taken part in 15 paid clinical trials. The 37-year-old from Cambridge in the UK became a human guinea pig for the reason most people do: money. “I’d had my first child, and the childcare bill was more than I was earning per month. So I did trials using my annual leave entitlement to earn some extra cash,” Ben told Euronews Health. The very first trial he participated in was for an anti-inflammatory drug and run by Quotient Sciences, a UK-based drug development company. “(Quotient Sciences) were a really great team who explained the trial and risks to me fully. I had...
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A strain of bird flu that jumped to dairy cows and then farmworkers in the US this spring could become a global health risk – but the extent of the threat is unknown and officials in Europe and elsewhere could be caught unprepared if it escalates. The US cases are the latest upswell of a highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) that has been circulating among migratory birds and mammals in recent years, mostly in Europe and the Americas. Since March, the strain has cropped up in 145 cattle herds in 12 US states and infected four dairy workers, all of whom went on to recover from their illnesse...
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There have now been four human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, known as bird flu, in the US linked to an outbreak among dairy cows. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that a dairy worker in the state of Colorado tested positive for the virus. Three other cases have been reported in the US since April, one in Texas and two in Michigan. The person reported eye symptoms, received an antiviral treatment, and recovered from the infection. The dairy worker was being monitored due to their proximity to bird flu-infected cattle. The infection "does not change ...
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Why has bird flu killed millions of wild and domestic birds, touched seals and sea lions, mink farms, cats, dogs and others but hardly touched people? That's "a little bit of a head-scratcher,” although there are some likely explanations, said Richard Webby, a flu researcher at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the US state of Tennessee. It could have to do with how infection occurs or because species have differences in the microscopic docking points that flu viruses need to take root and multiply in cells, experts say. But what keeps scientists awake at night is whether that situation...
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By Hera Rizwan India reported its first two deaths due to the influenza virus H3N2, on March 10. From January 2 to March 5, 451 cases of H3N2 infection have been reported across the country, according to data shared by the Union health ministry. India witnessed a spike in influenza cases in the past few weeks, with people on social media claiming that H3N2 was spreading like Covid. Some users claimed that H3N2 was spreading like "wild fire". "India every year witnesses two peaks of seasonal influenza: one from Jan to March and the other in the post-monsoon season. The cases arising from season...
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By Hera Rizwan Of late, India is seeing increased cases of influenza which includes symptoms such as cough, cold, fever, and body ache. According to the experts, this year the symptoms are prolonged and are contributing to higher hospitalization rates, than before. A low rate of vaccination and increased pollution are the possible reasons behind the trend, experts said. "Although it is common to have such symptoms during this time of the year, when we are transitioning from one season to another, but we are seeing increased instances and prolonged symptoms this year. We can attribute this to I...
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Paris (AFP) - Experts have warned that the recent detection of bird flu in mammals including foxes, otters, minks, seals and even grizzly bears is concerning but emphasised that the virus would have to significantly mutate to spread between humans. Since late 2021, Europe has been gripped by its worst-ever outbreak of bird flu, with North and South America also experiencing severe outbreaks. This has led to the culling of tens of millions of domestic poultry worldwide, many with the H5N1 strain. The global outbreak is also responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of wild birds. Tom Peac...
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Washington (AFP) - US pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Monday it had begun a clinical trial to test an influenza vaccine designed with the same mRNA technology behind its successful Covid-19 shot. The idea is to improve on the current generation of flu vaccines that have an efficacy of 40-60 percent against a disease that can cause up to 650,000 deaths a year. "The Covid-19 pandemic allowed us to deliver on the immense scientific opportunity of mRNA," Kathrin Jansen, head of vaccine research at Pfizer, said in a statement. "Influenza remains an area where we see a need for vaccines which cou...
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