…The initiation of CEL-SCI’s rapidly-accelerated LEAPS-H1N1 clinical development program builds on CEL-SCI’s pioneering work with its L.E.A.P.S.(TM) technology in the context of H1N1. CEL-SCI’s L.E.A.P.S. (Ligand Epitope Antigen Presentation System) technology allows the Company to direct an immune response against specific disease epitopes. In the case of CEL-SCI’s investigational LEAPS-H1N1 treatment, this involves non-changing regions of H1N1 Pandemic Flu, Avian Flu (H5N1), and the Spanish Flu. This is intended to enable stimulation of the specifically-needed immune responses, while avoiding the administration of regions of H1N1, and other viruses, which may exacerbate the problem of cytokine storm, which CEL-SCI scientists believe may be involved in the death of some H1N1 patients.”

Uluitu M, Duşleag L, Constantinescu D, Petcu G, Catrinescu G, Pană S.
By spectrofluorimetric method there was followed the blood and cerebral serotonin content in different species of mammalians: in 28 women, from the venous whole blood collected by cubital puncture, and in 20 cows, from the jugular whole blood. In 90 female rats the serotonin content from hypothalamus, rhinencephalon, mesencephalon, and sensorimotor cortex was determined. The obtained data show that in the course of labour in both species the blood serotonin concentration is decreased, returning to its initial values after delivery. The serotonin concentration in cows is 10–15 times higher than in women. As concerns the serotonin values in the cerebral nuclei through pregnancy, a progressive and significant increase of its content was noted in the hypothalamus, rhinencephalon, and mesencephalon, but not in the cerebral cortex. It reaches its maximum concentration at the end of pregnancy. It was concluded that during pregnancy a reduction of serotonin release processes is produced, which can signify a lower functional level of the serotoninergic structures implied in the regulation of the reproductive functions. The data are interpreted in the light of the particular endocrine state existing through pregnancy, attributing to serotonin a role in the functioning of PIF-prolactin system.
PMID: 814560 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] “
Serotonin levels seem ever more relevant…

A possible factor could be blood serotonin levels, given that the age cohort incident levels seem to vary with a victim’s age. I base this on my on experience in mid-April with a stomach virus, my age of 71 & my being on Zoloft since January. I was admitted for a one-day hospital stay, for fluids, following the onset of:
a) Dehydration from severe vomiting over an 8 hr. period.
b) Shakes, w/temp breaking @ 102.
c) Coughing w/copious phlegm during the same 8 hr. period.
d) Airplane flight ten days prior to onset.
e) Prolonged recovery period.