seasonal flu

Unlike seasonal flu, which tends to be worst among the elderly, swine flu hits kids hardest.

Unlike most seasonal-flu viruses, this one attacked young people most severely and is expected to keep doing so for some time, she said.

Unlike the seasonal flu, the H1N1 swine flu virus has been found to be contagious for about a week after symptoms have receded.

Sanofi and other drugmakers annually produce about 300 million doses of seasonal flu vaccines, the kind used for annual flu shots.

All the pandemic vaccines have had their own safety tests, and almost all are based on seasonal flu vaccines used for years.

But it's hard to say whether children account for a higher proportion of deaths from swine flu than they do from seasonal flu.

CDC has determined that this new H1N1 virus is contagious and is spreading from person-to-person, probably like seasonal flu.

You will not be able to tell the difference between seasonal flu and influenza A(H1N1) without medical help.

And, today the WHO said the new virus appears to be more contagious than seasonal flu virus.

The government should heed recent findings that the new flu is not any more severe than seasonal flu, he said.

Although most cases appear to be mild, the new swine flu strain has killed just as seasonal flu does.

U. S. health officials have predicted that the swine flu virus would spread and inevitably kill some people, just as seasonal flu does.

Yu Hongjie Answer: some of the traditional seasonal flu known as influenza, Influenza H1N1 influenza itself is an influenza.

First, let me clarify the difference between seasonal flu, avian flu, and human pandemic influenza.

Soon it became apparent that swine flu was no more lethal than the typical seasonal flu.

It was a sub-type of the Spanish flu and is in our current seasonal flu vaccine.

In contrast, seasonal flu tends to kill the frail elderly.

The WHO reports that those individuals who received the seasonal flu vaccine do not have added protection against the swine flu.

Although we are now in the post pandemic period, the H1N1 (2009) virus is still circulating as one of the seasonal flu strains.

This is in contrast to the tendency of seasonal flu to affect mostly elderly people over the age of 65 years.

Seasonal flu vaccines use either an inactivated or weakened form of the flu virus.

The expanded approval also covers the company's seasonal flu vaccine.

So while the disease does not appear to be more severe than seasonal flu, a disproportionate number of young people will probably get it.

The findings suggest that seasonal flu vaccine boosts those antibodies slightly - perhaps a reason to get a shot this year.

A lack of vaccines for seasonal flu guarantees that many unprotected people will die of the otherwise mundane version of influenza.

Its seasonal flu vaccine has cleared all three phases of human trials and is closer to licensing than any vaccine not made from whole virus.

so if the virus does mutate, a seasonal flu vaccine in those circumstances would be useless. . .

Seasonal flu comes back in slightly different forms each year.

French National Health Authority announced on the 12th reported that the seasonal flu at the turn of the old and the new invasion of France.

Not everyone agrees with Viehbacher that vaccine makers would have to abandon seasonal-flu vaccines to accommodate a swine-flu vaccine.

The US could not do this because no seasonal flu vaccines with adjuvants had already been tested and approved there.

Was the H1N1 vaccine subjected to the same testing and clinical trials as seasonal flu vaccine?

The recommendation stated, however, that older individuals should receive the seasonal flu vaccine as soon as it's available.

It seems that the precautionary measure is effective in containing the seasonal flu outbreak.

Several companies have used the method to develop seasonal flu vaccines, but none has reached the market.

Mortality patterns were in many cases similar to those associated with normal, seasonal flu.

Symptoms of swine flu in humans appear to be similar to those produced by standard, seasonal flu.

Symptoms are similar to seasonal flu, but cases have ranged from mild infections to severe pneumonia, resulting in death.

The CDC says the seasonal flu vaccine is 'unlikely to provide protection' against the swine flu.

They've also been approved to reduce the risk of contracting the seasonal flu, though they don't provide long-lasting protection.

Nevertheless, those who have not had a seasonal flu vaccine should consider doing so.

Couldn't people just skip the seasonal flu shot and hold out for the H1N1 vaccine under development?

In the UK, about 600 people a year die from seasonal flu. This rises to around 13, 000 during an epidemic.

Seasonal flu is much more likely to be fatal for older people (over 65).

But over 90 percent of the deaths from seasonal flu are among the elderly, while the swine flu mostly affects the young.

Regular seasonal flu vaccine is unlikely to provide protection against this strain.

The CDC said more seasonal flu viruses were making people sick than would normally be expected for May, and the reasons were not clear.

Unconfirmed report that seasonal flu vaccine in Ukraine is contaminated with life bird flu virus.

Strangely, the new H1N1 strain of virus does not strike the elderly anything like as much as seasonal flu does.

The current seasonal flu vaccine, which targets a different H1N1 strain, also isn't likely to offer any protection.

Like seasonal flu, swine flu may cause a worsening of underlying chronic medical conditions.

Most cases are mild to moderate, with H1N1 appearing to be about as deadly as seasonal flu.

Seasonal flu shots appear to boost that "memory" response a little.

Just last week, Sanofi received FDA approval to manufacture seasonal flu vaccine at a new facility in Swiftwater, Pa.

This is the reverse of the pattern seen in seasonal flu, which kills thousands of old people every winter.

Each year seasonal flu kills 50 to 100 children, and it's too soon to know whether swine flu will turn out to be more deadly.

Those pandemics disproportionately killed younger people, a phenomenon, which is different from seasonal flu.

Will a vaccine against a swine-like virus cause more adverse reactions than a seasonal flu vaccine?

Paradoxically, it might be because of past exposure to seasonal flu.

Experts believe it spreads in the same way as seasonal flu - through coughing and sneezing.

Right now, about 90 percent of the circulating flu is H1N1, although seasonal flu, which typically peaks in winter, has also been detected.

But Chan said it is also important that drug makers keep their timetable to finish producing this year's seasonal flu virus vaccine.

In addition, the committee said, individuals currently recommended for seasonal flu vaccine should get it as soon as it is available.

That would exceed China's usual seasonal flu-vaccination rate.

In the southern hemisphere, where it is winter, swine flu apparently replaces the usual seasonal flu.

The most common seasonal flu virus found in the United States this year is type A(H1N1).

In seasonal flu, there are certain people that are at higher risk of serious flu-related complications.

These could provide a three-month head start in making seasonal flu vaccines.

Fukuda notes most deaths from seasonal flu are among people older than 65 or those who have chronic medical conditions.

But resistance to seasonal flu doesn't predict resistance to pandemic strains of flu, Bloomberg adds.

The production of flu vaccine has developed to cope with seasonal flu.

While it and a similar bird flu vaccine have undergone safety testing, no seasonal flu vaccine has yet been made this way.

There are no reoccurring revenues. Moving a seasonal flu vaccine into clinical trials is their first real commercial opportunity.

The GISN, established in 1952, is a global alert mechanism for seasonal flu and emerging flu viruses with pandemic potential.

Did previous vaccination against seasonal flu increase the risk of getting pH1N1 flu?

According to the CDC seasonal flu and H1N1 symptoms consist of fever, more painful body aches, dry cough, diarrhea and severe fatigue.

Did seasonal flu vaccination increase the risk of infection with pandemic H1N1 flu?

In the northern hemisphere we are now entering the peak period for seasonal flu.

The comparisons aren't exact, because the CDC calculates deaths from seasonal flu differently, he cautioned.

A(H1N1) flu is ten times more dangerous to children than seasonal flu, a large-scale study in Argentina has found.

As with seasonal flu, some people will get very sick and some of them will die.

It causes seasonal flu in every subsequent year.

But one thing is clear: This is a lot more than just seasonal flu out of season.

Sanofi-Aventis produces about 225m doses of seasonal flu vaccine.

Why is bird flu more deadly than seasonal flu in humans?

With seasonal flu, people develop symptoms within about 4 days.

If we say this flu is three or five times worse than current seasonal flu, what does that mean?

The study also reported that seasonal flu vaccines induced little or no immunity to A(H1N1) in any age group.

If you did have confirmed H1N1, you are still vulnerable to seasonal flu.

Experts are worried about seasonal flu, because it could get mixed up with a deadly novel strain, such as the H5N1 bird flu virus.

For comparison, about 300 to 400 people die from seasonal flu in the UK every year .

What we have found is that the swine flu has similarities to the seasonal flu, which appear to provide some level of pre-existing immunity.

Every year, 36, 000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu.

The seasonal flu typically hospitalizes 200, 000 people in the United States each year and kills 36, 000.

As a partial solution, the WHO is urging countries to make more seasonal flu vaccine.

Can seasonal flu vaccine and H1N1 2009 vaccine be taken at the same time?

Is it dangerous to vaccinate against both seasonal flu and the new H1N1 flu at the same time?

Hong Kong's health minister expects the second wave of the pandemic to arrive in January or February, the city's next seasonal flu peak.

When the mutations are gradual, as with seasonal flu, it is known as drift;