Dr. Carol Cardona, a FAZD Center prinicpal investigator, is making national news with a recent study that previous infections of seasonal flu may protect older people from the current H1N1 human flu.
Stories about Cardona's study, which was funded in part by the FAZD Center, have been distributed on the Reuters News Service and have appeared on the web sites Science Daily, Physorg.com and DVM360.
The study appears in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Cardona says the human population may already have some immunity to the pandemic H1N1 influenza, thanks to previous outbreaks of seasonal flu. This immunity may weaken the H1N1 virus, which may explain my symptoms have thus far proven generally mild.
Cardona is a veterinarian and Cooperative Extension specialist with the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Her co-author, Zheng Xing, is a project scientist with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
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