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...shortages may have been exacerbated by some healthy individuals, not included in the target population, who have also rushed to be vaccinated and avoid the aches and pains associated with influenza. Most experts, however, do not recommend that the general public be vaccinated...
This year's surge in requests for vaccinations came after a late August announcement by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) regarding the detection of the type A-Beijing strain of influenza in Louisiana...
...type A-Beijing strain, along with the A-Texas and the B-Panama strains, are the three influenza viruses against which this year's vaccine has been formulated to protect...
...next step is to understand the parasite genes and to genetically engineer malaria parasites in order to prevent it from causing disease, as in the influenza vaccine," Wirth said...
...cure for influenza has always been elusive to researchers: the virus's outer coat undergoes frequent mutation, so a vaccine can attack only one strain. But newly synthesized enzymes designed by computer may be able to kill a wide variety of flu viruses...