A case of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
The other day I learned that a friend’s relative had recently succumbed to Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD). He told me that he had been diagnosed with the ‘infectious’ form of the…
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Reverse zoonoses: Human viruses that infect other animals
…at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, where a 9 year old chimpanzee died of respiratory disease caused by human metapneumovirus. This member of the paramyxovirus family is responsible for approximately…
The number of possible viral variants
…are present at any given time? Here is an interesting calculation in Virus Dynamics by Martin A. Nowak and Robert McCredie May (Oxford University Press): Suppose that the average virus…
Adjuvant effect on H1N1 vaccine
…or without the adjuvant MF59. A boost inoculation was given on day 21. Sera were taken on days 13 and 21 and the antibody response was measured by hemagglutination-inhibition (HI)…
Single dose of 2009 H1N1 vaccine immunogenic in adults
An Australian group has reported results of a clinical trial to determine the safety and immunogenicity of a 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus vaccine. Twenty-one days after the first of…
Seasonal influenza vaccine
…of the pandemic H1N1 vaccine. The vaccine that I received is trivalent. It contains three different seasonal influenza virus strains: A/Brisbane/59/2007 (H1N1); A/Brisbane/10/2007 (H3N2); B/Brisbane/60/2008. The viral strains were propagated…