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America's MedImmune has come up with a nasal spray that uses a live flu virus in a weakened form.
The product, called FluMist by Aviron is prepared from live flu viruses modified to survive only in the nasal passages, not in the lower respiratory tract.
Using new methods of synthesizing live flu viruses in the laboratory, Dr. Kawaoka and his colleagues meticulously went through the Hong Kong virus's eight gene segments, switching a gene from a lethal strain with its counterpart in a nonlethal strain, and asking if the change made the new virus nonlethal to mice.
Paper-based money, for instance, can transfer live flu viruses for up to 17 days.
A new study finds that live flu vaccines may increase our susceptibility to bacterial infections.
The vaccine for children contains a weakened form of the live flu virus which is sprayed up the nose whereas the traditional flu jab contains dead virus and is injected in the arm.
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Unlike the shots, it contains live, weakened flu viruses that cannot cause the flu because they can't reproduce in the human body.
A live attenuated flu vaccine, which contains weakened versions of the influenza virus, makes mice more prone to bacterial infections in their nasal passages.
They found that those who received the FluMist vaccine, a nasal spray made with live but weakened flu virus, had a significantly lower risk of acute ear infections compared with children who received a placebo.
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In the past century, the world had experienced three devastating influenza pandemics which claimed hundreds of thousands to millions of lives globally: Spanish Flu (H1N1, 1918 1919), Asian Flu (H2N2, 1957), and Hong Kong Flu (H3N2, 1968) [1].
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