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Influence of the "first flu"

UK expert said 2 hemagglutinin could explain different patterns in flu pandemics

11-Nov-2016

Key points from article :

People are only protected from the first hemagglutinin protein their body meets, at risk from the other one.

Researchers classed the 2 hemagglutinin proteins as "blue" and "orange" lollipops.

People born before the late 1960s were exposed to "blue lollipop" flu viruses - H1 or H2 - as children.

If exposed to "blue lollipop" flu - H5N1 bird flu, they could've died only from "orange" H7N9.

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Michael Worobey

Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professor and Department Head of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Science

Peer-reviewed academic online journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

University of Arizona

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University of California

Public research university with 10 campuses and 5 medical centres

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Pandemics