China has recorded the first human infection of variant H3N8 avian influenza, announced on Tuesday (26) the country's health authority, which added that the risk of transmission to other people is low. According to information advanced by some international portals, the infection was discovered in a 4-year-old boy in the central province of Henan,...
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Moderna will launch unique flu vaccine and Covid
US drugmaker Moderna intends to launch a single booster vaccine against the common flu and Covid-19 within two years, writes the news to the minute, citing the British newspaper The Guardian. Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the combination vaccine will protect against Covid-19, influenza and RSV, a respiratory virus...
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Portugal wants to treat covid-19 as a common flu
Covid-19 should start to be seen as a common flu in Portugal, as is already happening in Spain, some experts suggest. The ways of contraction of the virus and its behavior in the human organism are already known worldwide and this is possible to predict, after two years in...
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Covid-19: Omicron possibly contracted common flu viral fragment
A study advances the possibility that the omicron variant, covid-19, may have acquired a fragment of viral genetic material from another common cold-causing flu in one of its 30,000 or so mutations. The researchers say that this genetic sequence does not appear in any previous version of the coronavirus, but is ubiquitous in many...
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Moderna develops single-dose booster vaccine against covid-19 and influenza
The U.S. pharmaceutical company Moderna announced Thursday that it has begun a program to develop a single-dose vaccine that combines a booster against covid-19 and another against influenza