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Birth Year May Help Protect From Bird Flu Strains
Birth Year May Help Protect From Bird Flu Strains
THURSDAY, Nov. 10, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- The year you were born could help predict your risk of becoming seriously ill or dying after exposure to a flu virus that jumped from animals to humans, researchers suggest.It was believed that previous exposure to a flu virus offered people little to no protection against new animal-origin flu viruses, according to investigators from the University of Arizona in Tucson and the University of California, Los Angeles.But an analysis of all-known cases of severe illness or death caused by the H5N1 and H7N9 bird flu viruses showed that the first infection with flu virus as child helps determine which new bird flu viruses people would be protected against in the future.
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A Person's Year Of Birth Might Affect Future Flu Risks
A Person's Year Of Birth Might Affect Future Flu Risks
How new strains of flu affect a person may be partly determined by when he or she first had any kind of flu, a study suggests.Researchers from the University of Arizona in Tucson and the University of California in Los Angeles examined 18 strains of influenza A and the hemagglutinin protein on the surface of the virus, the BBC reports.This protein is one of the reasons the flu is so effective, as it binds the virus to the cell and initiates an attack on the body's immune system.
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Birth Year May Affect Your Flu Risk. Here's How
Birth Year May Affect Your Flu Risk. Here's How
People's birth years can affect their risk of catching certain strains of influenza — probably because their first case of flu somehow sets their immune system, researchers reported Thursday.Their findings could be good news for what scientists predict about the risk of a killer flu pandemic, and they could also help researchers find better flu vaccines, the researchers said.A new study explains why children and young adults are more likely to be infected with H5N1, shown here, while H7N9 disproportionately affects older adults.
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