Sentence examples for flu variants from inspiring English sources

When this happens, the flu vaccine is less effective because the antibodies developed to recognize the egg-adapted virus do not recognize the actual infectious flu variants circulating in the human population.

Potentially, we can no longer rely on waterfowl to be the only source of new flu variants, as bats have now been found to harbor influenza viruses whose internal genes share common ancestry with all known influenza A viruses.

The government has learned many lessons from the SARS outbreak in 2003 and subsequent cover-up, and so far the World Health Organization has publicly praised China's handling of this new flu variant.

A new flu variant H1N1 had arrived.

The papers show how a bird flu variant can pass easily between ferrets.

In the wake of dire warnings about new flu variant H1N1, Horizon follows the researchers trying to unravel viruses' secrets to understand when and why they kill.

Given during flu epidemics, they could provide a broadly reactive surrogate vaccine (see below) without the need to isolate a new flu variant and manufacture a new vaccine.

Because the flu shot must change each year to respond to the changes in the influenza virus itself, scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and around the world are working to design a universal vaccine that could recognize all influenza variants.

When the researchers checked a database with genome sequences of more than 6000 flu virus variants, they found that the amino acid sequence of this region remains constant in many viral strains.

We documented cross-reactivity against 14 Flu-HA variants, 11 viral, 15 human, and 3 myelin-derived peptides.

In addition to determining the effectiveness of vaccine strains in a given flu season, variant epitopes on the surface of the virus may also result in varying immunological responses.