Sentence examples for existing flu from inspiring English sources
And Dr. Fishman noted that existing flu vaccines contain components of the H1N1 virus, so "I do not consider this a new vaccine — the vaccine is being made the same way that every influenza vaccine is made".
The company's combination consists of two existing flu drugs, amantadine and oseltamivir (Tamiflu), as well as ribavirin, an antiviral drug that is part of the standard treatment for hepatitis C. The three drugs work by different mechanisms to gang up on the virus.
First, there is no compelling evidence that existing flu vaccines or antivirals will be effective against the specific pandemic influenza strain, if and when it arrives.
The resulting surge in papers revealed that the virus is vulnerable to existing seasonal flu vaccine and common flu drugs, allaying fears that mischief-makers would conjure it up and wreak havoc.
The people initially offered vaccination included frontline health and social care workers, people over 6 months and up to 65 years in the seasonal flu vaccine clinical at-risk groups (e.g. heart, lung, kidney disease), all pregnant women, household contacts of people with compromised immune systems and people aged 65 years and over in the existing seasonal flu vaccine clinical at-risk groups.
We designed a longitudinal study to examine influenza- (flu-) specific immune responses and the association between pre-existing flu responses, symptoms of influenza-like illness (ILI), impact of pandemic flu infection, and pandemic flu vaccination in a cohort of 2,040 individuals in Sweden in 2009 2010.
This complicates the development of cross-protective immunity i.e. the ability to cover several different isolates; rather, influenza vaccines must regularly be updated to match existing seasonal epidemic flu isolates.
Mutability makes even existing, well-known flu viruses unpredictable.
Fearsome though it may be, the new virus appears to be vulnerable to existing vaccines and flu drugs.
For example, they can both use and follow an existing hashtag like #flu on Twitter, and they can also encourage others to use one they create, like #flubrooklyn to track a flu outbreak in Brooklyn.
We adopt most of the concrete values for the model parameters from the existing literature on flu epidemics [ 3, 4, 33, 34].
