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In July 2024, CSL Seqirus, Sanofi and GSK have collectively secured $72 million in funding from the U.S. health department to boost the country’s supply of bird flu vaccines. [16] In June 2024, the European Commission's Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) signed a four-year contract with CSL Seqirus to secure 665,000 ...
On April 18, 2024, H5N1 was detected in ducks in Alappuzha district, Kerala. The District Collector decided to initiate the process of culling domestic birds within a 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) radius from the epicentre of the outbreak. [45] By May 9, 2024, district officials had culled 60,232 birds in Alappuzha.
These strains of swine flu rarely pass from human to human. Symptoms of zoonotic swine flu in humans are similar to those of influenza and influenza-like illness and include chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness, shortness of breath, and general discomfort.
CHICAGO (Reuters) -H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
Between 2003 and December 2024, the World Health Organization has recorded 963 cases of confirmed H5N1 influenza, leading to 465 deaths. [9] The true fatality rate may be lower because some cases with mild symptoms may not have been identified as H5N1. [10] A/H5N1 influenza virus was first identified in farmed birds in southern China in 1996. [11]
The following is a list of WHO recommended strains for the Northern Hemisphere influenza season. Starting in the 2012–2013 season, the recommendation shifted to include the composition of a quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV) that contains both influenza B lineages, alongside a trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) containing one influenza B lineage.
The flu shot contains either an inactivated virus (which means it’s no longer infectious) or a particle that’s designed to look like a flu virus to your immune system, according to the CDC.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 12 March 2024. "Availability of influenza vaccines by country in EU/EEA in the 2019/20 season". European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). 11 October 2019. List of nationally authorised medicinal products Active substance: influenza vaccine (surface antigen, inactivated) (PDF).