Tag Archive for 'H1N1'

Is 2019-nCoV Outbreak as Bad as SARS or 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic?

Jan 31, 2020 by The Conversation

As the 2019-nCoV coronavirus continues to cross international borders, the two key questions on public health officials’ minds are: How deadly is it?...

H1N1 influenza virus. Image credit: CDC Influenza Laboratory.

Ethnicity Influences Response to Influenza Vaccine

Oct 27, 2016 by Bhuminder Singh

Dr. Raj Kurupati and colleagues from the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University Medical Center showed that an individual’s...

Scientists Discover First ‘Virological Penicillin’

Oct 15, 2014 by Natali Anderson

Chinese researchers have discovered what they say is the first ‘virological penicillin’ – MIR2911, a molecule found naturally in a Chinese...

Micrograph shows H1N1 swine flu virus (C. S. Goldsmith / A. Balish, CDC)

H1N1 Swine Flu Virus Found in Marine Mammals for the First Time

May 20, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers reporting in the journal PLoS ONE has detected the influenza H1N1 virus in Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris) off...