No one really looks forward to getting a shot, but for the vast majority of people, vaccines are very safe. Some people experience mild side effects like soreness after receiving a vaccine, and rarely people report more serious problems. In your case, the best course of action is to tell your health provider about your previous symptoms, and then follow the provider's advice for future vaccinat...

The recent discovery of a new strain of swine flu (officially known as influenza A/H1N1/Mexico City 2009) and the ensuing epidemic demonstrate the collective vulnerability of humankind to pandemic spread of respiratory viruses. We have been planning for pandemic influenza for decades and it is now upon us. This new strain is a hybrid virus, with its major surface hemagglutinin antigen sequences...

What did we do well in the first year of pandemic (H1N1) 2009, and what can we do better?

H1n1 flu virus (1). Moving from this local and most concerning incident to the international arena reveals further matters worthy of consideration in the context of pandemic influenza. in 2005 the World Health Assembly adopted revised international Health Regulations. The purpose of these Regulations is to prevent the international spread of disease while avoiding unnecessary interference with ...

No one really looks forward to getting a shot, but for the vast majority of people, vaccines are very safe. Some people experience mild side effects like soreness after receiving a vaccine, and rarely people report more serious problems. In your case, the best course of action is to tell your health provider about your previous symptoms, and then follow the provider's advice for future vaccinat...

The 2009 H1N1 swine flu is the first influenza pandemic in decades. The crystal structure of the hemagglutinin from the A/California/04/2009 H1N1 virus shows that its antigenic structure, particularly within the Sa antigenic site, is extremely similar to those of human H1N1 viruses circulating early in the 20th century. The cocrystal structure of the 1918 hemagglutinin with 2D1, an antibody fro...

In 2009, the world experienced the first influenza pandemic for thirty years. Identified in Mexico in March, the novel swine flu quickly spread across the globe and was declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization at the end of April. In the UK, the epidemic differed from regular flu epidemics in that it occurred during the summer rather than the winter. Using a relativel...