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Swine Flu 1976

1976 ‘Swine Flu’ Shot Linked to ‘Robust’ H1N1 Resistance

New evidence shows immunization against “swine flu” in 1976 might provide individuals with some protection against the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, according to new research by investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Researchers found that individuals who reported receiving the 1976 vaccine mounted an enhanced immune response [robust immunity] against [...]

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New perspective on 1976 swine flu (H1N1) vaccination

A study published by scientists from the National Institutes of Health provides additional evidence that persons who received the 1976 vaccine may have immunity from pandeminc H1N1 (pH1N1). Researchers evaulated immune responses in mice after exposing them to several H1N1 viruses (1918, 1940, 1976 and 2009) and found that prior infection with a 1976 H1N1 [...]

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1976 Vaccine Programme Helping Moderate Affect of 2009 Pandemic?

A recent study published in PLoS Pathogens found that vaccines developed from “classical H1N1 viruses (Sw/30 or NJ/76), 1918 virus-like particles, and a human H1N1 virus isolated in 1943 (Wei/43) protected against death from 2009 pandemic H1N1…” when tested in vivo in mice. Another study finding was that the “H1N1 virus underwent little antigenic drift [...]

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