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Pandemrix is an influenza vaccine for influenza pandemics, such as the 2009 flu pandemic. The vaccine was developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) [2] and patented in September 2006. [3] The vaccine was one of the H1N1 vaccines approved for use by the European Commission in September 2009, upon the recommendations of the European Medicines Agency ...
Fun fact: B/Yamagata strains haven’t been detected since the COVID-19 pandemic began, so flu B is technically down to just B/Victoria right now. On the whole, flu A viruses tend to cause a more ...
The B/Yamagata lineage of influenza B, one of the four lineages targeted by quadrivalent vaccines, might have become extinct in 2020/2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic measures, [69] and there have been no naturally occurring cases confirmed since March 2020.
The 2024–25 flu shot doesn’t prevent H5N1 bird flu but could play a pivotal role in preventing a pandemic. Bird flu could merge with seasonal flu to make mutated virus that could spread among ...
Even so, lab-confirmed flu tests were at a 31.6% positivity rate the week ended Feb. 1, a statistic the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy called “eye-popping.”
On November 7, the CDC reported asymptomatic bird flu infection in 4 workers at dairy farms. The workers didn't recall ever being sick but had antibodies showing that they had been infected with bird flu. [98] On November 22, the CDC confirmed the first case of bird flu in a U.S. child, being the 55th case of bird flu in humans in the U.S.
Flu is not the only virus floating around this time of year. The CDC is also tracking COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity on a weekly basis. ... H3N2) are confirmed in your ...
The November 27, 2009 worldwide update by the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO) states that "more than 207 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including over 7,820 deaths". The WHO has also tracked more than 622,482 laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1. [58]