ALLMedicine™ H1N1 Influenza Center

May 20th, 2022 - An H1N1 influenza virus caused a pandemic in 2009, and descendants of this virus continue to circulate seasonally in humans. Upon infection with the 2009 H1N1 pandemic strain (pH1N1), many humans produced antibodies against epitopes in the hemaggl...

May 19th, 2022 - Due to the spread of the Omicron variant, many countries have experienced COVID-19 case numbers unseen since the start of the pandemic. We aimed to compare the epidemiological characteristics of Omicron with prior variants and different strains of...

May 19th, 2022 - H1N1 influenza has brought serious threats to people's health and a high socio-economic burden to society. Oseltamivir, a kind of neuraminidase (NA) inhibitor, is the second-generation specific drug that is broadly used currently. However, H1N1 in...

Apr 26th, 2022 - Declined immune response is the main cause of decreased potency of the influenza vaccine in the elderly, regardless of virus mutations. Herein, we hypothesized that the addition of α-tocopherol to the influenza vaccine formulation might increase v...

Apr 25th, 2022 - Overview Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is defined as illness caused by a novel coronavirus now called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; formerly called 2019-nCoV), which was first identified amid an outbreak of res...

Apr 14th, 2022 - COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the newly discovered coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, with a clinical spectrum from asymptomatic infection to critical and fatal illnesses. Influenza H1N1, A, and B have also been the most frequent etiologies of ...

Nov 5th, 2021 - The new H1N1 influenza virus seen in 2009 has been designated a pandemic by the World Health Organization, due to the sustained community outbreaks seen in the United States and Mexico. Based on preliminary data, it appears children and young adul...

Oct 26th, 2021 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has developed into a pandemic with serious global public health and economic sequelae. As of March 30, 2020, over 750,000 cases h...

Oct 20th, 2021 - Background: Nova Scotia has the highest proportion of seniors in Canada. Investing in high quality and safe long-term care homes is considered an important healthy aging strategy both here and globally. COVID-19 has disproportionately affected the...

Sep 28th, 2021 - The purpose of this study is to design and execute a prospective, longitudinal, descriptive cohort study in a pragmatic clinical practice for adults with symptoms that may be related to COVID-19 infection who participate in Chinese herbal medicine...

Oct 8th, 2021 - A simple wristband containing biometric monitoring sensors is able to pick up early infection from both influenza and the common cold before symptoms develop. Moreover, it can predict the severity of the illness once it becomes symptomatic, new re...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - Despite slightly decreasing numbers of pregnant women hospitalized with influenza, the rate of morbidity among those who do have influenza has substantially increased from 2000 to 2015, likely due in part to an increase in comorbidities. Maternal ...

Oct 22nd, 2020 - This article was last updated on October 22, 2020. The information in this quiz may not be updated regularly. Please review information on Medscape's resource center and on the CDC website. Illness caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coron...

Oct 12th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. In 1976, when army recruits in Fort Dix, New Jersey, fell ill from a virulent form of influenza, infectious disease physician William Schaffner, M...

Sep 3rd, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Dozens of major hospitals across the U.S. are grappling with whether to ignore a federal decision allowing broader emergency use of blood plasma f...