Influenza Viruses and Pandemics

(November 2, 2009) Lucy S. Tompkins, Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford, discusses pandemic influenza in the last century, today, and in the future.

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• H1N1
• swine flu
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• RNA
• respiratory system
• pathogens
• hemagglutinin
• neuraminidase
• amino acid
• antigenic drift
• antigenic shift
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[grunder20]

Thats why vaccine is important.

[agapitoflores001]

Nice upload. I can use this for my own research.

[l67swap1]

recently noticed that running folding at home program there are projects where stanford is studying how influenza attacks cells... deff intresting ! :)

[tobiduder]

thanks for this upload, this month im focussing on a review of structural based medicine on influenza.