Flu shot protects against new strain H7N9 (MORTALITY RATE IS 30%)

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The mortality rate for this new strain of flu is 30%, and the current flu vaccine protects against it. If you didn't get a flu vaccine this year, you might want to rethink that:

Flu shot protects against new strain H7N9: study

The flu vaccine may not have protected most people against influenza circulating widely this season, but a study Tuesday showed it was effective against the new H7N9 strain that emerged in China in 2013.

Antibodies that protect against H7N9 avian flu make up a small portion of people's immune response to the annual flu shot, "but appear to broadly neutralize H7 viruses and represent promising new targets for therapeutic development against a wide range of influenza strains," according to the research by the University of Chicago and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

"We have clear evidence that a normal immune response to flu vaccination offers protection against dangerous and highly unique strains of influenza such as H7N9," said co-senior author Patrick Wilson, associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago.

"We now need to develop ways of amplifying this response."

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http://news.yahoo.com/flu-shot-protects-against-strain-h7n9-study-115315045.html

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This strain has been found in Canada.