Swine Flu

A pork sample taken from Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse of the New Territories in January tested positive for the A/H1N1 influenza virus, according to the University of Hong Kong's surveillance programme which made the result public on Tuesday. No gene re-assortment was detected in the sample and the virus remained genetically similar to the A/H1N1 influenza [...]

Approximately 90% of the Hemagglutinin positions between 186 and 246, including antigenic areas of the Receptor Binding Domain (RBD/RBS), are on record as polymorphic. Only 6 positions in that range are stable. Many positions rate multiple changes. The list presented today is certainly not comprehensive. For the sake of brevity, only one section is discussed [...]

A year after the first cases of the virus were reported, researchers said it put 12 times the usual number of flu patients into intensive care in both countries last winter. Although the virus was a mild disease for most people, many with more serious symptoms needed critical care, Sydney-based intensive care specialist Ian Seppelt [...]

LONDON, April 9 /PRNewswire/ — The most recent BioRadar™ (FluForecast™) analysis of the virus genomes of both H5N1, known for high lethality, and H1N1, known for high infectivity, indicates that the Replikin Counts™ of both strains are rising. Such Count increases in a specific strain have been invariably associated with clinical outbreaks of that strain. [...]