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...malaria. The lead researcher, Dyann F. Wirth, who is also chair of the School of Public Health’s Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, said that the finding could help producers of malaria vaccines respond to adaptations by the parasite in much the same way as the influenza vaccine is updated to combat changes in that virus. “We’ll be able to monitor to see if vaccines are working and also to develop new vaccines,” Wirth said in a phone interview from Senegal, where she is running a workshop...
...INFLUENZA...
...common flu kills 36,000 each year. Girding for this winter's assault, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new vaccine against several flu strains likely to cause infections in North America, bringing to five the number of vaccines in this season's anti-influenza arsenal...
This season’s vaccine supply has increased markedly since last year, when a national shortage of the influenza vaccine forced UHS to cut back on its vaccination program. UHS was only able to offer between 5,000 and 6,000 doses last season, according to Rosenthal...
...Gharib writes in an e-mail. “Most disease transmission occurs by mucus membrane to mucus membrane contact, coughing, food handling by people with infections such as hepatitis, sharing utensils, or sharing needles,” writes Gharib. Popular Science Magazine seconds Gharib, confirming that illnesses like influenza and strep throat can’t make the leap from the seat to your immune system. Your germ-phobe mom wasn’t totally wrong, though. The New York University Medical Center’s website lists “toilet seats” among the risk factors...