Protect Children this Flu Season: Get a Flu Shot!

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Last Posted: Dec 01, 2017

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• Protect Children this Flu Season: Get a Flu Shot!
  Some children are at high risk for complications from flu
• Chasing Seasonal Influenza — The Need for a Universal Influenza Vaccine  
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• Multiple Reassorted Viruses as Cause of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N8) Virus Epidemic, the Netherlands, 2016.  
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• Predictive Modeling of Influenza Shows the Promise of Applied Evolutionary Biology.  
  Morris Dylan H et al. Trends in microbiology 2017 Oct
• Evolution-informed forecasting of seasonal influenza A (H3N2).  
  Du Xiangjun et al. Science translational medicine 2017 Oct (413)
• Fitness cost of reassortment in human influenza.  
  Villa Mara et al. PLoS pathogens 2017 Nov (11) e1006685
• The emergence and evolution of influenza A (H1α) viruses in swine in Canada and the United States.  
  Nelson Martha I et al. The Journal of general virology 2017 Nov (11) 2663-2675
• Detection of influenza C viruses among outpatients and patients hospitalized for severe acute respiratory infection, Minnesota, 2013-2016.  
  Thielen Beth K et al. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2017 Oct
• Whole genome sequencing identifies influenza A H3N2 transmission and offers superior resolution to classical typing methods.  
  Meinel Dominik M et al. Infection 2017 Oct
• The evolution of seasonal influenza viruses.  
  Petrova Velislava N et al. Nature reviews. Microbiology 2017 Oct
• Preventive Steps 
• Emergence and adaptation of a novel highly pathogenic H7N9 influenza virus in birds and humans from a 2013-human-infecting low pathogenic ancestor.  
  Qi Wenbao et al. Journal of virology 2017 Oct
• Pilot screening study of targeted genetic polymorphisms for association with seasonal influenza hospital admission.  
  Carter Tonia C et al. Journal of medical virology 2017 Oct
• Evolution-informed forecasting of seasonal influenza A (H3N2)  
  Du X, et al. Sci Transl Med, Oct 25, 2017.
• Human Parainfluenza Virus Infection in Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Cases in Beijing, 2014-2016: a Molecular Epidemiological Study.  
  Pan Yang et al. Influenza and other respiratory viruses 2017 Oct
• Adenovirus vector-based multi-epitope vaccine provides partial protection against H5, H7, and H9 avian influenza viruses.  
  Hassan Ahmed O et al. PloS one 2017 (10) e0186244

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