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One-third of US parents plan to skip flu shots for their kids this season
Thirty-four percent of parents in the United States said their child was unlikely to get the flu vaccine this year, according to a report published Monday by C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. The online poll, which was administered in October, looked at 1,977 parents who had at least one child, whether parents would get their children the flu vaccine and their reasoning, among other things.
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Llama Antibodies May Be the Key to Flu Prevention
Researchers have created a llama-inspired mega protein capable of neutralizing 59 different strains of influenza. By Meilan Solly.
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A century on, why are we forgetting the deaths of 100 million?
The 1918 Spanish flu outbreak killed more people than both world wars. Don’t imagine such a thing could never happen again, says the Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
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Llama blood clue to beating all flu
Scientists design an antibody based on llama blood that is highly effective against flu strains.
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Scientists studied flu cases in more than 600 cities and towns around the US — and found where flu season lasts the longest
Influenza viruses circulate better in cold, dry air. But scientists who've studied six years of illness data from across the country have found out that the weather isn't as big a factor in transmission rates in big cities. The flu is more persistent all winter in a big metro area.
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Japan Just Approved a New Drug That Can Kill the Flu Virus In Just One Day
As the worst flu season in a decade rages on, a potentially groundbreaking new drug that can kill the flu virus in just one day has won regulatory approval—in Japan. Japanese officials granted an accelerated approval to the treatment, Xofluza from pharmaceutical maker Shionogi, last week. It could soon prove to be a significant competitor to Swiss drug giant Roche’s Tamiflu, one of the most common antivirals used to treat the flu. But it could also take until at least 2019 for Xofluza to reach the U.S. market.
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Flu kills up to 4,000 Americans a week, causing 1 in 10 deaths
The amount of influenza ravaging the U.S. this year rivals levels normally seen when an altogether new virus emerges, decimating a vulnerable population that hasn’t had a chance to develop any defenses. It’s an unexpected phenomenon that public health experts are still trying to decode.
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Special UV light safely kills airborne flu virus, finds study
Overhead far-UVC light, a type of ultraviolet light that is harmless to humans, effectively killed airborne flu virus, found researchers at Columbia University.
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