Only a fraction of people at risk getting flu shots (The Naperville Sun)
Vaccinations against influenza are most commonly given to high-risk humans in industrialized countries and to farmed poultry. The most common human vaccine is the trivalent flu vaccine that contains purified and inactivated material from three viral strains. Typically this vaccine includes material from two influenza A virus subtypes and one influenza B virus strain. A vaccine formulated for one year may be ineffective in the following year, since the influenza virus changes rapidly over time and different strains become dominant. Antiviral drugs can be used to treat influenza, with neuraminidase inhibitors being particularly effective.
Only a fraction of people at risk getting flu shots (The Naperville Sun)
At www.facesofinfluenza.org, black-and-white portraits of Jennifer Garner and Sheryl Swoopes appear alongside those of less famous Americans, such as Richard and Alissa Kanowitz, whose daughter Amanda died from influenza complications at age 4.
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Flu Season Arrives, Officials Urge Getting Shots (CBS4 Denver)
Flu season has officially arrived in Colorado as the first confirmed case is a 39-year-old woman in Boulder County. Health officials couldn't say if she'd had a flu shot.
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Only a fraction of people at risk getting flu shots (The Naperville Sun)
The first significant step towards preventing influenza was the development in 1944 of a killed-virus vaccine for influenza by Thomas Francis, Jr.. This built on work by Frank Macfarlane Burnet, who showed that the virus lost virulence when it was cultured in fertilized hen's eggs. Application of this observation by Francis allowed his group of researchers at the University of Michigan to develop the first flu vaccine, with support from the U.S. Army. The Army was deeply involved in this research due to its experience of influenza in World War I, when thousands of troops were killed by the virus in a matter of months.
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