A new study has reported that healthy adults may have a level of protective immune memory to the swine flu virus. This, it claims, can blunt the severity of infection caused by the 2009 H1N1 influenza.
In the study, researchers showed that molecular similarities exist between the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus and other strains of seasonal H1N1 virus that have been circulating in the population since 1988.
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Earlier exposure to the seasonal flu viruses provide people with some level of immunity to the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, scientists at University of California, Davis, have found.
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Led by Dr. Bjoern Peters and Dr. Alessandro Sette of La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Calif., the researchers examined molecular structures known to be recognized by the immune system-called epitopes-on 2009 H1N1 influenza and seasonal H1N1 viruses.
Viral epitopes are recognized by immune cells called B and T cells- B cells make antibodies that can bind to viruses, blocking infection, and T cells help to eliminate virus-infected cells.
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The researchers used the information to find that some viral epitopes are identical in both the 2009 and seasonal H1N1 viral strains.
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Subsequent experiments using blood samples taken from healthy adults demonstrated that this level of T-cell epitope conservation might provide some protection and lessen flu severity in healthy adults infected with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus.
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Immune Response Strong as H1N1 Influenza Vaccines are Well Tolerated
Health experts in the US have revealed that early results from various clinical trials of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines in healthy adults seem to be quite encouraging.
Health experts in the US have revealed that early results from various clinical trials of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines in healthy adults seem to be quite encouraging.
The results suggest that healthy individuals may have immune memory that recognizes the 2009 H1N1 strain and therefore can mount some measure of an immune attack.
The findings may also help explain why the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic affects young children more severely than it does healthy older adults and also why two H1N1 vaccinations are needed to protect children ages nine years and under.
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