Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences. The authors of this paper show that increased levels of air pollution significantly increase the rate of hospitalisation for people with flu. In addition, they find that protection afforded …
PANAJI: From just one case of swine flu reported last year, to 146 cases recorded since January this year, Goa has also reported 16 swine flu-related deaths, including one just last week. Of these 16 deaths, two were patients referred to the Goa medical college (GMC) and hospital, Bambolim, from …
MUMBAI: Dengue that has created havoc in the capital city has now struck Mumbai, causing the second death of the year while affecting hundreds within the last few weeks. Several hospitals in the western suburb are flooded with dengue patients. The latest to die of the viral infection, transmitted by …
AHMEDABAD: The combined onslaught of dengue and swine flu continued in the city on Monday. Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad cities each registered a swine flu case. No less than 85 cases of the flu were reported in the city during the last one and half weeks. Since January this year the …
AHMEDABAD: The deadly H1N1 virus has resurfaced with a vengeance as six fresh swine flu cases were reported on Wednesday. This took the total number of swine flu patients to 2,278 and swine flu deaths to 132 since January 1. Superintendent of Civil Hospital, MM Prabhakar said: "Five patients were …
Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent infection. Influenza vaccines propagated in cultured cells are approved for use in humans, but their yields are often suboptimal. Here, we screened A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (PR8) virus mutant libraries to develop vaccine backbones (defined here as the six viral RNA segments …
Researchers say they are closer to developing a vaccine to give life-long protection against any type of flu, after promising trials in animals. Two separate US teams have found success with an approach that homes in on a stable part of the flu virus. That should remove the problem with …
While a relationship between environmental forcing and influenza transmission has been established in inter-pandemic seasons, the drivers of pandemic influenza remain debated. In particular, school effects may predominate in pandemic seasons marked by an atypical concentration of cases among children. For the 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic, Mexico is a particularly interesting …
Navi Mumbai: Swine flu has claimed 29 lives in Thane district in the last eight months. Out of those, 8 deaths — the second highest in the entire district — were from Navi Mumbai, revealed data compiled by the civil surgeon of the Thane Civil Hospital. The highest number of …
IFITM3 is critical for limiting the severity of influenza virus infections in humans and mice. Optimal antiviral activity of IFITM3 is achieved when it is present at high levels within cells. Our results indicate that the E3 ubiquitin ligase NEDD4 decreases baseline IFITM3 levels by ubiquitinating IFITM3 and promoting its …
PANAJI: Two more swine flu deaths registered during the last two weeks has taken the death toll in Goa to six, while the number of reported swine flu cases has risen to 77. In the span of the last two weeks, three cases of H1N1 were reported, including two deaths. …
The cases of H1N1 are getting steadily diagnosed with 184 cases and seven deaths recorded by the BMC in July alone. Two more persons have died due to H1N1 infection in the first week of August, taking the death toll to 29, data from the civic health department indicated Wednesday. …
The hospital stay of the patients ranged from a day to 41 days. On an average, a patient spent 7.69 days at the hospital. Swine flu patients spent 17-62 times the per capita income of the country on treatment at a private hospital in the city this year, a study …
Countries in West Africa, which have been hard hit by the Ebola virus, may soon be battling with a serious bird flu crisis, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Monday. The H5N1 bird flu virus is highly contagious and is transmittable to humans. According to the …
Researchers from the University of Sydney have painted the most detailed picture to date of major infectious diseases shared between wildlife and livestock, and found a huge gap in knowledge about diseases which could spread to humans. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the world-first …
NASHIK: It's only been six months into the year but Nashik district has already surpassed last year's figures of the highest number of deaths from swine flu. The maximum number of deaths were reported in Nashik city followed by the rural parts of the district and then the adjoining districts. …
Wild birds are the major reservoir hosts for influenza A viruses, occasionally transmitting to other species such as domesticated poultry. Despite an abundance of genomic data from avian influenza virus (AIV), little is known about whether AIV evolves differently in wild birds and poultry, although this is critical to revealing …
Millions of infected Iowa birds were being raised near the city of Harris by Sunrise Farms, an affiliate of Sonstegard Foods Company, the company said. Photo: Joe Ahlquist The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee is set to hold a hearing next month on the deadliest-ever outbreak of bird flu in U.S. …
The researchers analyzed eight H10N8 viruses isolated from ducks and chickens in live poultry markets from 2009 to 2013 in China. These viruses showed distinct genetic diversity and formed five genotypes: the four duck isolates formed four different genotypes, whereas the four chicken viruses belong to a single genotype. The …
HO CHI MINH CITY, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered 42 serious food poisoning cases which affected 1,898 people, of whom 10 died, from January to May, while the respective figures were 36, 1,064 and 10 in the same period last year, the country's General Statistics Office announced Monday. Last …
