Bird Flu

"Our most potent design has proven effective on the vulnerable sites on many pandemic influenza viruses, including several H1N1 (Spanish flu, Swine flu) and H5N1 (Avian flu) subtypes," said Whitehead, the paper's co-lead author. "These new ...  

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, a disease associated with high rates of mortality in infected human populations, poses a serious threat to public health in many parts of the world. This article reports findings from a study aimed at ...  

You might not have noticed, but the influenza world has been in a bit of an uproar since late last year, when news leaked out that two teams of researchers had purposefully tweaked H5N1 bird flu in the lab to potentially make it more transmissible among ...  

Background: H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) is continuously circulating in manyAsian countries and threatening poultry industry and human population. Vaccination is thebest strategy to control H5N1 HPAIV infection in poultry and transmission to humanpopulation. The aim of this study is to identify new temperature-sensitive (ts) mutations fordeveloping recombinant avian live attenuated H5N1 influenza vaccine.FindingsA "6...  

After endless toing and froing over whether two studies that demonstrated how bird flu, also known as avian H5N1 influenza, or avian flu, should be published, one of them has appeared in the latest issue of the journal Nature in its entirety. The studies show how the bird flu virus could become transmissible from mammal-to-mammal; as humans are mammals, the same would apply to humans. This is the end of a marathon debate, mainly between...  

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: INO) announced today that its SynCon® avian influenza vaccine generated protective HAI titers against six different unmatched strains of H5N1 in a phase I clinical trial - a distinct clinical achievement on Inovio's path to develop universal influenza vaccines.  

The pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies in vaccinated individuals not only against the H1N1 virus, but also against other influenza virus strains including H5N1 and H3N2. This discovery adds an important new dimension to the finding last year that people infected with pandemic 2009 H1N1 virus produced high levels of antibodies that were broadly cross-reactive against a variety of flu strains...  

New page: More than one strain of Asian bird flu is generating the rounds and not all of them have the identical level of health hazards. Some Asian bird flu strains will kill you and some will just... New pageMore than one strain of Asian bird flu is generating the rounds and not all of them have the identical level of health hazards. Some Asian bird flu strains will kill you and some will just make you extremely ill. The most harmful of the...  

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq:NVAX) announced today that it has begun enrollment in a second Phase I clinical trial of its monovalent virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine candidate to prevent potential pandemic disease due to A/H5N1 avian influenza viruses ("bird flu"). This randomized, observer-blind, dose-ranging, placebo-controlled trial is being conducted under...  

ABC2 NewsScience journal could give recipe for deadly avian flu virusABC2 NewsA science journal is poised to publish a study that some experts believe could give a recipe to bioterrorists. The study is from an experiment by a Dutch scientist who engineered the avian flu virus to make it more deadly to mammals by making it spread ...Science Journal Could Give Recipe For Deadly VirusWRTV IndianapolisScientists torn over bird flu studyKIVI-TV...  

The Claim: A lab-concocted strain of ferret flu could become a doomsday weapon or bioterrorist threat. The Contrarian: Wendy Orent, author of Plague, says the much-hyped fears are unfounded: The new strain presents no danger to humans but reveals a great deal about the transmission of flu. Ferrets with the flu sneeze and cough like humans.iStockphoto Deadly H5N1 avian flu, long entrenched in Asian poultry, has terrified public health experts...  

AFPDutch okays mutant bird flu study's publicationAFP"Deputy Minister Henk Bleker approved a permit for the publication of the research done by professor Ron Fouchier on the H5N1 bird flu virus," his spokeswoman Cindy Heijdra told AFP. Dutch approval comes after a panel of US science and security experts ...Dutch officials approve publication of Fouchier's H5N1 studyCIDRAPControversial bird flu study gets export permitCTV.caall 32 news...  

H5N1 viruses remain a significant threat for humans as a potential pandemic flu strain. We have found that relatively few mutations enable this virus to transmit in mammals. These same mutations have the potential to occur in nature,' explained Kawaoka.  

The work, conducted by a team led by influenza virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo, suggests that as few as three changes to the main gene on the surface of some H5N1 flu viruses might allow the ...  

The research, published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, finds that the 2009 H1N1 "swine flu" vaccine triggers antibodies that protect against many influenza viruses, including the lethal avian H5N1 "bird flu" strain. According to John ...