Bird Flu
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WHO has published Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update 24. The Ministry of Health of Egypt has reported a new confirmed human case of avian influenza A(H5N1). The case is a 21 year-old male from Sedy Beshir District,...
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- Doctors Tested Bird Flu Vaccine on Homeless People (search.msn.com)
- Why H5N1 didn't cause a pandemic (crofsblogs.typepad.com)
- 'Genetic hurdle' halted bird flu (p.moreover.com)
Study: H5N1 needs double mutation to gain human transmissibility A team of British and American researchers say their experiments suggest that the H5N1 avian influenza virus would have to undergo at least two simultaneous mutations to gain the ...
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following the death of 1,000 ducks in the central province of Suphan Buri in Thailand. Berita Jakarta INDONESIA - The East Jakarta Administration is seriously anticipating bird flu spread on its areas. One of the ways is destroying 3,752 poultry to stop
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From the Announcement:
New methods of studying avian influenza strains and visually mapping their movement around the world will help scientists more quickly learn the behavior of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus, Ohio State University researchers say.
The researchers linked many powerful computer systems together to analyze enormous amounts of genetic data collected from all publicly available [...]
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- Nigeria: Bird Flu Not Over in Nigeria (news.google.com)
- Scientists put interactive flu tracking at public's fingertips (sciencedaily.com)
- Characterization of low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses isolated from... (biomedcentral.com)
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inovio Biomedical Corporation (NYSE Amex:INO), a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced today that a combination of its synthetic consensus H1N1, H2N2, H3N2, and H5N1 influenza vaccine candidates achieved protective antibody responses against several different influenza sub-types and strains in ferrets. In addition, ferrets immunized with Inovio...
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- Inovio Biomedical Universal Flu Vaccines Demonstrate Broadly Protective... (businesswire.com)
Via Xinhua: Thailand's North alerted of bird flu outbreak. It's suspected, not confirmed. Excerpt:Thailand's North has alerted of the bird flu outbreak after almost 100 poultries died recently in a northern province of Nan. As Thailand's North is now experiencing...
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- Indonesia: More B2B H5N1 outbreaks (crofsblogs.typepad.com)
- Indonesia: B2B H5N1 outbreaks in West and North Sumatera (crofsblogs.typepad.com)
- Vietnam reports bird flu outbreak among poultry (news.google.com)
Since up until now, we've only seen the third case of serious swine flu emerged in Shanghai, you may well be wondering, “how bad could all this hullabaloo get anyway?"
Pretty bad. Do you remember Avian Flu? The one that had a high mortality rate but was difficult to contract? What would you say about the creation of a supervirus that was as contagious as the swine flu and as deadly as the avian flu?
It may not be as far-fetched a...
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