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What can't antibiotics be used to treat the flu? #antibiotics #flu #viralinfection #fluvirus
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Matt Potter Oct 20, 2024

Amid the noise, this is worth looping back on.

This year, most flu shots will be different.

Because we have eradicated one of the major influenza strains entirely. Gone.

The strain was a casualty of Covid-19 measures (social distancing, masking, lockdown etc.)

This is an unalloyed good, & worth celebrating.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/05/health/flu-vaccine-yamagata-strains

#virology #influenza #flu #fluvirus #covid19 #covid #vaccination #lockdown #publichealth #virus

The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines

For ten years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four different strains of the flu—two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the United States will contain only three strains, and the change happened in part because of Covid-19.

CNN

tbs Sep 30, 2024

Breakthrough may mean universal flu vaccine available in ‘five years’

https://talker.news/2024/07/19/breakthrough-may-mean-universal-flu-vaccine/?utm_source=pocket_shared

#Science #FluVirus

Breakthrough may mean universal flu vaccine available in ‘five years’

A universal flu vaccine would be effective against all human-adapted strains of influenza.

Talker

Matt Hodgkinson Apr 26, 2024

Another reason not to drink raw milk: H5N1 bird flu has infected cattle in the US and its RNA has made its way into store-bought milk, but the heat treatment of pasteurisation has likely killed the virus. In raw milk, the virus will be intact and able to infect.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/25/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-outbreak-likely-widespread/

#H5N1 #BirdFlu #Cattle #RawMilk #Pasteurisation #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #MilkProduction #DairyIndustry #ViralInfections #Virology #PandemicFlu #Influenza #FluVirus #AvianFlu #AvianInfluenza #CowFlu

Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread

The prevalence of H5N1 genetic material in purchased milk products suggests the bird flu outbreak is far more widespread in cows than official counts indicate.

STAT

stjuderesearch Jun 4, 2023

The #H5N1 #fluvirus poses a great unknown threat to birds and humans. For decades, #StJude #virologists have been mining #DelawareBay each year to expand their knowledge and to help thwart possible #influenza outbreaks. Learn how: http://bit.ly/3IVn1AA @emilyanthes @nytimes #StJudeResearch #FluResearch

For These Bird Flu Researchers, Work Is a Day at the Very ‘Icky’ Beach

The H5N1 virus poses “a great unknown threat” to birds and humans alike. Understanding and thwarting it begins with excrement collection.

The New York Times