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How can birth year affect your flu risk?
How can birth year affect your flu risk?
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.(Photo: CYNTHIA GOLDSMITH / UCLA via NBC News)(NBC News/Maggie Fox) — 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.
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Your birth year determines which strain of flu will kick your butt
Your birth year determines which strain of flu will kick your butt
Worried about contracting the flu this year?Believe it or not, your risk may be linked to the year you were born.No, it's not astrology; it's simply a matter of the strain of flu you were exposed to as a child.
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The year of your birth predicts how scary your flu can get
The year of your birth predicts how scary your flu can get
Falling ill due to animal-origin influenza virus?According to a recent study, our birth year predicts how likely we are to get seriously ill or die in an outbreak of an animal-origin influenza virus.Until now, it was believed that previous exposure to a flu virus conferred little or no immunological protection against new influenza viruses that can jump from animals to humans.
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birth year may affect your flu risk
birth year may affect your flu risk
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."Our work implies that we have never seen a true 'virgin soil' influenza pandemic," the team wrote in their report, published in the journal Science.
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