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Swine flu survivors developed super flu antibodies (Universal flu shot?)
Reuters
| January 10, 2011
| Julie Steenhuysen
Posted on 01/10/2011 2:55:07 PM PST by decimon
CHICAGO (Reuters) A study of antibodies from people infected with H1N1 swine flu adds proof that scientists are closing in on a "universal" flu shot that could neutralize many types of flu strains, including H1N1 swine flu and H5N1 bird flu, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
They said people who were infected in the H1N1 pandemic developed an unusual immune response, making antibodies that could protect them from all the seasonal H1N1 flu strains from the last decade, the deadly "Spanish flu" strain from 1918 and even a strain of the H5N1 avian flu.
"It says that a universal influenza vaccine is really possible," said Patrick Wilson of the University of Chicago, who worked on the paper published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Many teams are working on a "universal" flu shot that could protect people from all flu strains for decades or even life.
U.S. officials say an effective universal flu vaccine would have enormous ramifications for the control of influenza, which kills anywhere from 3,300 to 49,000 people in the United States each year.
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: h1n1; h1n1flu; swineflu
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posted on
01/10/2011 2:55:11 PM PST
by
decimon
To: neverdem; DvdMom; grey_whiskers; Ladysmith; Roos_Girl; Silentgypsy
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posted on
01/10/2011 2:56:09 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
H1N1 pandemic? They are still pushing this lie.
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:01:03 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Red_Devil 232
H1N1 pandemic? They are still pushing this lie.H1N1 is active and across much of the world so it is indeed pandemic.
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:06:15 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
a "universal" flu shot that could protect people from all flu strains for decades or even life. Unfortunately, a side effect is that they will become flesh-eating zombies.
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:08:57 PM PST
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: decimon
Some microbe is sitting back somewhere laughing at our superior intellect.
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:16:05 PM PST
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: SIDENET
Unfortunately, a side effect is that they will become flesh-eating zombies. The people or the virus?
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:22:03 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:23:20 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:28:36 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
I have had the flu a number of times (until I started taking the flu shot) but the worst was in 1957. I was 17 and I was so sick I was delirious, high fever, headache, body aches, chest congestion, racking cough,you name it I had it. I was as weak as an infant when I finally got out of bed. Did the ‘57 flu have a name?
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:29:43 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: decimon
This phony azz scam again?
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:31:26 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
To: decimon
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:32:20 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
To: Ditter
Did the 57 flu have a name?Asian Flu.
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:45:05 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
01/10/2011 3:47:08 PM PST
by
decimon
To: Ditter
I was 17 and I was so sick I was delirious, high fever, headache, body aches, chest congestion, racking cough,you name it I had it. I was as weak as an infant when I finally got out of bed. Did the 57 flu have a name? I don't if it had a name, but many people who die from flu outbreaks are young people with very strong immune systems. They die from the strong response.
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posted on
01/10/2011 4:30:02 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
To: decimon
Hmmmm. I survived H1N1 last winter. Wonder if my blood is worth some bucks now?
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posted on
01/10/2011 4:37:28 PM PST
by
Figment
("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
To: decimon
I wish I could believe this since H1N1 nearly killed me in Dec 09. Sadly my child had H1N1 twice and so did another child I know. I fear this info is Bull.
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posted on
01/10/2011 4:39:26 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: decimon
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posted on
01/10/2011 5:02:53 PM PST
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: decimon
Swine flu is a mild flu at that.
Best thing to do is go ahead and get it and acquire the universal immunity.
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posted on
01/10/2011 5:51:08 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
('If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Swine flu is a mild flu at that. Best thing to do is go ahead and get it and acquire the universal immunity.
You're awfully sure of yourself. Is there anything to qualify your dispensing such medical advice?
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01/10/2011 6:17:13 PM PST
by
decimon
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