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Stay Vigilant, Bird Flu Could Spark Next Global Outbreak, Urges Expert published
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PDT
Robert Webster, an influenza expert, says health authorities worldwide need to remain watchful for possible influenza outbreaks, despite swine flu being much less deadly than people had originally feared. Webster, chairman of the virology and molecular biology department at St...
Satellite Data Reveals Why Migrating Birds Have A Small Window To Spread Bird Flu published
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 'bird flu' virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of wild birds could lead to global pandemic...
Four-Footed 'Biosensors' Detect Animals Infected With Bird Flu published
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Blood hounds, cadaver dogs, and other canines who serve humanity may soon have a new partner - disease detector dogs - thanks to an unusual experiment in which scientists trained mice to identify feces of ducks infected with bird influenza. Migrating ducks, geese, and other birds can carry and spread flu viruses over wide geographic areas, where the viruses may possibly spread to other species...
News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology published
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
New Compound May be Effective Against Chagas' Disease A new compound may offer an effective drug candidate against the deadly tropical infection, Chagas' disease say researchers from Brazil. They report their findings in the August 2010 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy...
New Biochemical Trick Employed By H1N1 Flu Virus To Cause Pandemic published
Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
The influenza virus, scientists well know, is a crafty, shape-shifting organism, constantly changing form to evade host immune systems and jump from one species, like birds, to another, mammals...
Also In Global Health News: Bird Flu In Bangladesh; Women's Health In Kenya; Drug-Resistant Malaria In Cambodia; Over-Diagnosis Of Malaria In Children published
Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:00:00 PDT
USAID Program To Prevent Spread Of Bird Flu In Bangladesh Expands All Headline News reports on a USAID-funded initiative to prevent the spread of bird flu in Bangladesh...
Intercell Reports Phase II Study Results Of Its Vaccine Enhancement Patch For Pandemic Influenza published
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Intercell AG (VSE: ICLL) announced the results of a Phase II clinical trial of its investigational Vaccine Enhancement Patch (VEP) system for avian H5N1 influenza. In this development program, Intercell is working under a contract with the U.S...
Emerging Pathogens Project published
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 PDT
The Field Museum and the University of Chicago have announced the establishment of the Emerging Pathogens Project, a unique research program to study the evolution of species-switching parasites or pathogens that result in diseases such as bird flu, malaria, and AIDS. Many diseases have a long infection history in animals...
Avian Flu's Endurance In 5 Countries Poses Global Threat To Human Health, FAO Official Says published
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Though the world has made "great strides" in eliminating H5N1 (avian flu) from poultry since the "peak of its outbreak in 2006" in 63 countries, the virus persists in Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Indonesia and Vietnam, VOA News reports (DeCapua, 4/16). Juan Lubroth, the U.N...
New Tool Harnesses The Web And Supercomputers To Track Pathogens As They Evolve published
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Pathogens can now be easily tracked in time and space as they evolve, an advance that could revolutionize both public health and inform national security in the fight against infectious diseases...
Swine- And Avian-Origin Influenza Targeted By Immune Molecules published
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Antibodies are immune molecules that have a key role in protecting against infection with influenza virus. The target of the protective antibodies is the influenza protein HA, which varies so dramatically among influenza viruses that it is used to classify them into subtypes (H1-H16)...
Discovery Of An Influenza Detector Gene That Could Potentially Prevent The Transmission Of The Virus To Humans published
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
A University of Alberta-led research team has discovered an influenza detector gene that could potentially prevent the transmission of the virus to humans. Katharine Magor, a U of A associate professor of biology, has identified the genetic detector that allows ducks to live, unharmed, as the host of influenza...
Also In Global Health News: Bird Flu; Burundi's Global Fund Grant; Maternal Mortality In Ghana; Food Security In Africa; More published
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
WHO Warns Bird Flu Continues To Pose Threat Despite a reduction in the number of cases of avian flu (H5N1) since its peak in 2006, the WHO said in a statement Wednesday that "the newly confirmed human and poultry cases of avian influenza this year are a reminder that the virus poses a real and continuous threat to human health," Agence France-Presse reports (3/24)...
Infrared Thermal Detection Systems Useful For Patient Screening published
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) found an Infrared Thermal Detection System (ITDS) to be a fast and effective fever screening tool in clinical settings during the H1N1 influenza pandemic. The ITDS detected fever in patients through split-second, non-contact skin temperature measurements...
$300,000 CIHR Grant Awarded To Medicago, The Research Institute Of The MUHC And McGill University published
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) have awarded a $300,000 grant for research focusing on the nature of the immune response induced by the action mechanisms of plant-made Virus-Like Particles (VLP) to Dr. Louis Vezina, Chief Scientific Officer of Medicago and to Dr. Brian Ward and Dr...
Inovio Biomedical H5N1 Avian Influenza DNA Vaccine Receives Korean Approval To Begin Clinical Trials published
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Inovio Biomedical Corporation (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced that its affiliate VGX International Inc. (Korean Stock Exchange: 011000) has received approval in Korea to begin a Phase I clinical trial in healthy volunteers for Inovio's SynCon™ preventive DNA vaccine (VGX-3400) targeting H5N1 avian influenza...
News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology published
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Campylobacter Bacteria in Cattle Manure May Survive Composting Contrary to popular belief, some disease causing bacteria may actually survive the composting process...
Pandemic Hybrid Of Bird And Human Seasonal Flu Possible Say Scientists published
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PDT
An international team of scientists has created a highly pathogenic laboratory hybrid of the H5N1 bird flu and human seasonal flu viruses by swapping just one gene, and propose that a similar genetic interaction could happen in nature between the current pandemic H1N1 swine flu and H5N1 avian flu strains, highlighting the importance of continued surveillance...
Virus Hybridization Could Create Pandemic Bird Flu published
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Genetic interactions between avian H5N1 influenza and human seasonal influenza viruses have the potential to create hybrid strains combining the virulence of bird flu with the pandemic ability of H1N1, according to a new study. In laboratory experiments in mice, a single gene segment from a human seasonal flu virus, H3N2, was able to convert the avian H5N1 virus into a highly pathogenic form...
Adamas Pharmaceuticals Announces In Vitro Data Demonstrating TCAD Therapy Is More Potent Than Double Combinations Or Monotherapy Against Resistant Flu published
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc...
Voluntary System Works For Swine Flu Vaccination published
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Social interaction between neighbours, work colleagues and other communities and social groups makes voluntary vaccination programs for epidemics such as Swine Flu, SARS or Bird Flu a surprisingly effective method of disease control...
Pandemic Preparedness Untested In Ontario Hospitals published
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:00:00 PDT
One quarter of Ontario hospitals surveyed in a Queen's University-led study do not have an influenza pandemic plan and few plans that do exist have been tested. In addition, key players were not involved in developing the plans, and funding for pandemic preparedness was inadequate. "It's not good enough just to have a plan, you have to test it...
1918 And 2009 H1N1 Flu Probably Not Spread By Birds published
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:00:00 PDT
The two strains of the H1N1 influenza virus responsible for the 1918 and 2009 global flu pandemics do not cause disease in birds. The results of the study, published in the February issue of the Journal of General Virology, also show it is unlikely that birds played a role in the spread of the H1N1 virus in these pandemics...
New Research Findings Can Improve Avian Flu Surveillance Programs published
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Genetic analyses of avian influenza in wild birds can help pinpoint likely carrier species and geographic hot spots where Eurasian viruses would be most likely to enter North America, according to new U.S. Geological Survey research...
NexBio Initiates Phase II Trial Of DAS181 (Fludase(R)) For Treatment Of Influenza, Including Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) published
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:00:00 PDT
NexBio, Inc. announced the initiation of a double blind placebo controlled multi-center trial in the U.S. and Mexico of DAS181 (Fludase®) for the treatment of laboratory confirmed influenza infection. DAS181 is an investigational host-targeted drug candidate that blocks entry of influenza virus into cells of the respiratory tract...
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