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...cause fewer deaths than other hazards Food allergies 18 Lightning strikes 48 Stings (hornets, wasps or bees) 82 Malnutrition 3,003 Accidental drowning 3,976 Accidental poisoning 23,618 Flu and pneumonia...
...Boston A New Way to Fight the Flu Researchers have developed an antibody-based therapy for the flu virus that may help combat seasonal illnesses as well as more dangerous strains like the infamous H5N1 bird flu. The antibodies attach to a part of the virus that is less mutation-prone than the section targeted by current vaccines (which must be redeveloped every year to counter the virus' changes). Tests on mice produced promising results, although clinical trials with humans won't occur for a few years...
Besides working against many seasonal flu strains, the recently identified antibodies could cure all forms of Avian flu, as well as the Spanish Flu, which caused a global pandemic...
broad-spectrum flu vaccine can reach the market, said Paul D. Biddinger, an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School...
...single strain of the virus, influenza-A, causes the majority of flu cases, but comes in sixteen varieties—evidence of the great difficulty of finding a general cure for the disease...