A new section on Influenza, Flu or the common cold,with all the latest research and developments about Influenza or Flu and the common cold. It also includes all the various kinds of viruses associated with Influenza or Flu and ways to prevent Influenza or Flu. Also there are article on how to treat Flu or Influenza symptoms and all the latest drugs available for Flu or Influenza and the common co...
Dog Flu: The Animal Humane Society (AHS) in Minnesota has been grappling with an unprecedented outbreak of canine influenza H3N2 for two weeks now, causing alarm among pet owners and leading to the closure of three busy facilities. The outbreak has affected nearly 200 dogs housed in shelters in Golden Valley, Coon Rapids, and Woodbury, and is considered "unprecedented" due to the large n...
Influenza A Virus - ARIH1 - Antiviral Apr 03, 2023 2 months ago
Influenza A virus is a notorious pathogen that causes severe respiratory infections in humans and animals across the globe. As the world grapples with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and also with a potential H5N1 and other flu pandemics in the horizon, understanding the host immune response to influenza A virus infection is of critical importance.
The human immune system comprises of two b...
Cinnamon, an ancient spice obtained from the inner bark of trees belonging to the genus Cinnamomum, has been used for centuries in traditional medicine to treat a variety of ailments. In recent years, scientific studies have increasingly supported the health benefits of cinnamon, particularly its potential to combat flu infections.
Image Credit: AmyLv / Shutterstock
The distinct smell and flavo...
Star Anise - H5N1 Avian Flu Mar 20, 2023 2 months ago
Star Anise is the seed pod of the fruit of the Illicium verum plant. It is a star-shaped, dark-brown spice that has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. Its unique flavor, often described as sweet and licorice-like, is a key ingredient in several recipes and is also used a key ingredient in the Chinese five-spice powder and the popular Vietnamese soup, phở. However, this a...
H9N2 News: Before I even proceed, I have to confess..even I am getting confused keeping abreast with all the developments these days…H5N1 bird flu outbreak, H3N2 flu In India, H7N9 avian flu in camels In Mongolia, H1N1 flu in various parts of the world…etc!
Taiwan health authorities in the last few hours announced that a H9N2 bird flu outbreak has occurred on the island of K...
H7N9 News - Camels - Mutations Mar 15, 2023 3 months ago
H7N9 News: Researchers from Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu-China have made a shocking discovery that the H7N9 virus has mutated and is now infecting camels in the inner Mongolia region. The discovery serves as a warning that the H7N9 is evolving and there is a very high threat of it further mutating to enable it infect humans more easily!
Distressed camel being molested in the Middle-Eas...
Outbreak News - India - Multiple Viral Infections Mar 13, 2023 3 months ago
Outbreak News: Reports are emerging that many parts of India are facing a simultaneous onslaught of various viral infections caused by pathogens like adenovirus, influenza A virus, Influenza B virus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), metapneumovirus, rhinovirus, common human coronaviruses, para-influenza virus and also SARS-CoV-2!
Local physicians and hospitals are reporting the rise of ...
RSV Virus News: A first study by scientists from Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires-Argentina and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville-USA ash found that the the human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is rapidly mutating to evade vaccines!
The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in child...
H5N1 News - Domestic Cats - Austria Mar 10, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 News: Health authorities and veterinary experts in Austria have reported that three domestic cats from the Noah's Ark animal shelter in the southern town of Graz tested positive for the H5N1 Avian Flu virus.
According to the H5N1 News coverages, a chicken in the same shelter had been found infected with the virus about 2 weeks ago, marking the first known case in a domestic bird ...
H5N1 News: Bolivian government authorities have announced that about a dozen people could be possibly infected with the H5N1 Avian Flu virus as a result of handling infected birds and poultry.
Health officials from the Eastern province of Nor Chichas in Bolivia reported than about a dozen individuals from the town of Cotagaitilla in the Potosi District were possibly infected with the H5N1...
H3N2 News - India Outbreak Mar 06, 2023 3 months ago
H3N2 News: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has officially reported that the current mysterious respiratory disease affecting many locals across the country is due to the virus called Influenza A subtype H3N2.
https://twitter.com/ICMRDELHI/status/1631488076567687170
In the last 5 weeks there has been growing cases of individuals reporting contracting flu but with more seriou...
H5N1 News - South Kalimantan Indonesia Mar 04, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 News: The Indonesian Ministry of Health is investigating a suspected outbreak of H5N1 bird flu among local citizens in South Kalimantan after local authorities from the province reported that not only poultry in farms and markets were dying but a few people were stricken by a unknown respiratory disease with one already hospitalized due to severity.
https://en.antaranews.com/news/274533/scien...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - China Mar 02, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Health authorities in Jiangsu, an eastern province in China have confirmed that a 53-year woman has tested positive for bird flu after developing symptoms for a few days as a result of exposure to dead chickens in her farm.
https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/cnnews/20230302/bkn-20230302113116802-0302_00952_001.html
According to Chinese health officials, the woman developed s...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Chile Mar 02, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Many are speculating that there is a major coverup taking place in the region of Valparaíso in Chile as a result of intervention by certain International and Western health agencies and groups with vested interest in vaccine developments and manufacturing. Speculations are adrift that certain clandestine vaccine clinical trials are now being conducted in the vicinity du...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Houseflies and Mosquitoes Feb 27, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: While current safety guidelines issued by the WHO and U.S. CDC are warning that people should not directly touch any dead wild birds, chickens or any other animals as a result of the H5N1 Avian Flu virus that is currently circulating around in many countries, many are unaware that houseflies and other insects such as mosquitoes, blow flies and beetles can also act as vectors f...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Reassortant Strain Feb 27, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Forget about the more than 20 sub-lineages of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant that is predominant in many geolocations across the world as they are unlikely to drive disease severity except those in the vulnerable groups or about the rather isolated incident of a girl dying from the H5N1 Avian Flu virus in Cambodia, rather researchers are warning us that we should be more concerned...
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Below are summaries of latest about the H5N1 Avian Flu Threat.
Genome Sequencing Reveals That H5N1 Virus Found In Cambodia Belongs To Clade 2.3.2.1c.
It has been reported that genome sequencing of the H5N1 Avian Flu virus that killed a Cambodian girl and infected a few others belonged to the 2.3.2.1c. Clade that has been endemic in South-east Asia for the last ...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Thailand's DDC On Bird Flu Alert Feb 25, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Thailand’s Department of Disease Control has issueed an alert about the H5N1 Avian Flu Disease in the last few hours following the death of an 11-year-old girl in neighboring Cambodia a few days ago from the bird flu virus.
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-h5n1-avian-flu-news-11-year-old-girl-dies-from-h5n1-avian-flu-virus-in-cambodia-s-prey-veng-province
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H5N1 Avian Flu News - Cambodia Find 12 More Cases Feb 24, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Cambodia health authorities announced to the media in the last few hours that 12 more individuals have been infected with the H5N1 Avian Flu Virus but are pending laboratory diagnostics results.
At the same time another 37 individuals who have been suspected of having also contracted the virus are also being quarantined pending further investigations.
All the i...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Girl Dies In Cambodia Feb 23, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Cambodia’s Ministry of Health's Communicable Disease Control Department in the last few hours announced that a 11-year-old girl from the village of Roleang in Cambodia's southeast province of Prey Veng had died of H5N1 Avian Flu virus.
According to Cambodian health authorities, the girl fell ill on 16th February 2023 with the symptoms of a high temperatu...
H5N1 Avian Flu News: In the last two months, mainstream media has been abuzz about the H5N1 Avian flu virus that is wreaking havoc in poultry farms across the world, causing a shortage of not only poultry products but also eggs. Reports have also emerged that the H5N1 Avian flu virus is also infecting various mammals extensively and that it is only a mater of time before the virus effectively evol...
Outbreak News: Avian Flu H5N6 Jan 12, 2023 5 months ago
Outbreak News: Scientist are warning that more sporadic cases of human infections of avian flu H5N6 can be expected in 2023 after cases emerged in Ecuador and China.
H5N6 is a subtype of the species Influenza A virus, often referred to as bird flu virus as it typically infects birds, chickens and other fowl. Infected birds shed the virus in their saliva, mucous, and feces.
The H5N6...
Strep A News: The UKHSA has admitted that the current outbreak of invasive Group A strep (iGAS) infections seems to be spiraling out of control after it found that there has been massive underreporting of actual strep A infections due to a variety of reasons including lack of proper testing capacities and facilities.
The UKHSA has admitted that since 12 September to December 11 2022, the ...
Source: Medical News - New RSV Variants Nov 21, 2022 6 months ago
In early November, Thailand Medical News had called for various international research teams to look into the possibility of new respiratory syncytial virus or RSV variants emerging that could be causing anomalous manifestations in the current RSV surge that is affecting many countries globally especially the United States as there has not been any studies done in the last two years since the emer...
Source: Medical News - Amoxicillin - United States Nov 15, 2022 7 months ago
Due to the sudden shortage of the antibiotic Amoxicillin as oral tablets, powder suspension and especially in liquid form for intravenous use in the United States, Thailand Medical News has arranged for free disbursement of stocks to any hospitals, clinic or individuals needing it in the United States as our way of helping the American healthcare community.
A post-COVID-19 surge in upper ...
Source: health News - RSV Infections Surge Nov 05, 2022 7 months ago
Health News: RSV or respiratory syncytial virus infections are currently rising across the globe along with Influenza and also COVID-19 infections. While to date, most of the hard hit are children, it is a fallacy to assume that RSV does not affect adults. In fact, not only can adults contract the virus but usually when adults get it, it is often severe.
Research has shown that RSV infect...
Source: Medical News - New Pathogen Oct 25, 2022 7 months ago
Researchers from MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, School of Infection and Immunity – United Kingdom have identified a new pathogen that can evade the human host immune system, The new pathogen is hybrid virus comprising of fused viral particles from the RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and the IAV (influenza A virus) viruses.
To date, it is already known that in...
Source: Medical News - Flu Shots Oct 22, 2022 7 months ago
Its already clearly showing that the Influenza season has started not only in the Northern hemisphere but also in parts of the Southern hemisphere.
In America, the flu season started earlier than expected.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2022-2023/early-flu-activity.htm
The flu season this year is being dominated by the H3N2 strain that has been previously associated with more s...
Numerous scientists and experts are sounding warnings and alarms that a new bird flu strain that is transmissible to humans is likely to emerge in 2022 due to present kinetics and the vast number of bird flu variants that has emerged in the last 2 years.
Putin With His Bird
Even just yesterday, the health director from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) issued a press statemen...
Just as the world is beginning to deal with the threat of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants globally, Russia announced on Saturday that its scientists had detected the first cases of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization.
Russian health authorities had discovered the first human cases of the highly infectious H5N8 bird flu vir...
Influenza News: Researchers from the University of Chicago and Icahn School of Medicine-Mount Sinai in a new study found that an individuals's antibody response to influenza viruses is dramatically shaped by their pre-existing immunity, and that the quality of this response differs in individuals who are vaccinated or naturally infected. Their results highlight the importance of receivin...
Influenza News: A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago suggests that an individual’s antibody response to influenza viruses is dramatically shaped by their pre-existing immunity, and that the quality of this response differs in individuals who are vaccinated or naturally infected. The study team found that infection-induced antibodies reacted to non-neutralizing epitopes o...
Swine Flu: On Wednesday, Canadian health authorities reported the country's first case of a human infected with the H1N2 virus, a rare strain of swine flu.
A Chinese pig being tested for swine flu. Credit: Honglei Sun
The isolated case was case detected in the western province of Alberta in mid-October and although Canadian authorities are refusing to divulge the details of the infect...
Source: Influenza 2020/2021 Oct 15, 2020 3 years ago
Influenza 2020/2021: Two different studies one by Chinese researchers and another led by British scientists show the high risk involved with sequential infection of influenza followed by COVID-19.
In the first study by Chinese scientist from State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University-Wuhan, team shows that infection with the Influenza A virus or IAV actua...
Influenza News: A new study by researchers from Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center have uncovered a therapeutic called MG53 that is derived from a naturally occurring human protein to treat and stop the raging lung inflammation that can contribute to death from an influenza infection.
In animal vivo studies involving mice, all untreated animals given a lethal dose of influenza di...
Influenza-Flu: Researchers from St Jude Children's Research Hospital have found in a study that eradicating certain types of nasal bacteria actually helps to cut down the risk of contracting viral influenza strains.
Dr Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D., and Dr Jason Rosch, Ph.D., both of
St. Jude Infectious Diseases, led the respiratory bacteria research.
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research ...
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