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Treatments for influenza include a range of medications and therapies that are used in response to disease influenza. Treatments may either directly target the influenza virus itself; or instead they may just offer relief to symptoms of the disease, while the body's own immune system works to recover from infection.
A vaccine that contains the A/Vietnam/1194/2004 (H5N1) flu strain. [28] Pumarix: A vaccine approved for medical use in the European Union in March 2011. [29] Seqirus/Audenz: A vaccine for adults that contains a killed flu strain called A/Astrakhan/3212/2020 (H5N8)-like strain. [30] Some older H5N1 vaccines for humans that have been licensed are:
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.
The 1918 flu pandemic in humans was associated with H1N1 and influenza appearing in pigs; [72] this may reflect a zoonosis either from swine to humans, or from humans to swine. Although it is not certain in which direction the virus was transferred, some evidence suggests that in this case pigs caught the disease from humans. [ 69 ]
The UK’s first human case of swine flu strain H1N2 has been detected, the UK Health ... now circulates in humans seasonally and is different from the viruses currently circulating in pigs today.
The U.S. will pay for flu shots for farmworkers this year, a strategy to prevent bird flu from changing into something more dangerous. Dairy and poultry farms are dealing with outbreaks of bird ...
A human case of H5N1 was reported in the U.S. in April, "though this detection may have been the result of contamination of the nasal passages with the virus rather than actual infection." [1] [18] In September, Spain reported a human case; this was followed by a second case in November, in a person who worked at the same poultry farm as the ...
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