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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:
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 ]
A dozen more dairy herds in California have been stricken with bird flu as the virus continues to infect animals and humans around the U.S.. Nearly 700 herds in the state — or 71 percent of all ...
As H5N1 bird flu spreads among California dairy herds and southward-migrating birds, health officials announced Friday that six more human cases of infection: five in California and one in Oregon ...
MedImmune said it was making a significant, rapid response with a vaccine to the novel H1N1 variant of influenza, known as swine flu. [10] In June 2009 it won a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contract, worth $90m.
Of the 61 identified people infected with bird flu across the U.S., more than half have been in California, CDC data shows. Only one of the U.S. cases, a child in the San Francisco Bay Area , has ...
This person is also the 15th human case of H5 reported in the U.S. since 2022. [92] In September 2024, the CDC confirms that two dairy workers in California have contracted bird flu, marking the 15th and 16th human cases in this year's ongoing outbreak, which has impacted dairy cows nationwide. [93]