Breaking news on Birdflu Sars
Key Peptides Identified That Could Lead To A Universal Vaccine For Influenza published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Researchers at the University of Southampton, University of Oxford and Retroscreeen Virology Ltd have discovered a series of peptides, found on the internal structures of influenza viruses that could lead to the development of a universal vaccine for influenza, one that gives people immunity against all strains of the disease, including seasonal, avian, and swine flu...
Biosecurity Runs Up Against Scientific Endeavor: NSABB And H5N1 Redactions published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
In response to recent actions of the U.S...
How New Viruses Evolve, And In Some Cases, Become Deadly published
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The findings appear in the journal Science. The scientists showed for the first time how the virus called "Lambda" evolved to find a new way to attack host cells, an innovation that took four mutations to accomplish...
Newly Engineered Highly Transmissible H5N1 Strain Ignites Controversy About Balancing Scientific Discovery And Public Safety published
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:00:00 PST
Scientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 (commonly known as bird flu) to be readily transmitted between humans. Two perspectives being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians, raise concerns about if and how this research should be continued, and how the data should be shared for the benefit of public health...
Decision Of Researchers To Temporarily Halt Research On H5N1 Applauded By Georgetown Professor published
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is "laudable...
News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology published
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Saturated Fatty Acids Lead to Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Insulin Resistance Excessive levels of certain saturated fatty acids cause mitochondria to fragment, leading to insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, a precursor of type 2 diabetes, according to a paper in the January issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology...
Bird Flu Kills Duck Farmer In Vietnam And Toddler In Cambodia published
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:00:00 PST
On Thursday the Vietnamese authorities reported that a duck farmer has died of bird flu, coinciding with reports that a two-year-old boy in Cambodia has also died of the virus this week. The Vietnamese victim died on 11 January. According to the authorities this was the first human death from avian flu for nearly two years...
Flu Pandemics May Follow La Niña published
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PST
US scientists propose that flu pandemics follow La Niña weather conditions in the equatorial Pacific. The conditions alter bird migration patterns and this promotes new strains of flu (migrating birds are known to be primary pools of human influenza virus)...
Shenzhen Man Dies Of Bird Flu published
Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:00:00 PST
The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) received notification from the Ministry of Health (MoH) on the 30th December concerning a suspected human case of influenza A (H5N1) in Shenzhen. The man has unfortunately died...
Hong Kong Bans Poultry After Chinese Man Dies Of Bird Flu published
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:00:00 PST
Authorities in Hong Kong have banned imports of poultry products from certain places in neighbouring Shenzhen, a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, following the death there of a man confirmed as having the deadly form of bird flu known as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1...
Mutated Bird Flu Research Worries World Health Organization published
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:00:00 PST
Research on the H5N1 influenza (bird flu) virus' human transmissibility is seriously starting to worry WHO (World Health Organization) experts - in a written statement, the authors express concern about the potential risks linked to this research. The possible negative consequences of some experiments are serious and potentially dangerous...
US Govt Asks Scientists To Keep Lab-Bred Bird Flu Blueprint Secret published
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
Imagine this, our worst nightmare becomes our reality: as anticipated, the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus that kills most people it infects has acquired the ability to transmit easily from bird to human and then from human to human and has reached pandemic proportions...
News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology published
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
First Molecular Evidence Links Live Poultry Markets to Human H5N1 Infection in China Sequences of H5N1 virus from live bird markets in China matched sequences from patients who had recently visited the live bird markets, according to a paper in the December 2011 Journal of Virology...
Report Of Rare Flu Co-Infection In Southeast Asia Hot Spot published
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
Researchers conducting influenza-like illness surveillance in Cambodia have confirmed a rare incidence of individuals becoming infected with a seasonal influenza and the pandemic strain at the same time, a reminder of the ongoing risk of distinct flu viruses combining in human hosts to produce a more lethal strain, according to a report in the November issue of the American Jou...
Avian Flu Vaccine More Effective When Primed With DNA Vaccine published
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PST
The immune response to an H5N1 avian influenza vaccine was greatly enhanced in healthy adults if they were first primed with a DNA vaccine expressing a gene for a key H5N1 protein, researchers say. Their report describes results from two clinical studies conducted by researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health...
H5 Bird Flu Outbreak In West Bengal, India published
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:00:00 PST
An H5 bird flu (avian flu) outbreak in West Bengal, eastern India has triggered the culling of poultry and eggs, authorities have informed. Infected birds have been reported in the Nadia district of West Bengal, according to India's Ministry of Agriculture. A mutant bird flu strain is spreading in other parts of Asia...
H5N1 Bird Flu Mutant Strain Spreading In Asia And Elsewhere, UN Warns published
Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:00:00 PST
The possibility of a major resurgence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 - also known as bird flu - has prompted the United Nation's FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) to advise health authorities around the world to step up surveillance and readiness. There are signs that a mutant strain of Bird Flu is making inroads in Asia and other parts of the world...
Oral Interferon May Prevent And Control Avian Influenza Virus Infection published
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 PST
Avian influenza virus is a threat to the commercial chicken industry and, with its recent rapid spread across China, has also shown the ability for transmission from chickens to humans and other mammals. In an article in Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc...
Dangerous Progeny Can Result When Flu Strains 'Hook Up' published
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:00:00 PST
A new University of Maryland-led study finds that 'sex' between the virus responsible for the 2009 flu pandemic (H1N1) and a common type of avian flu virus (H9N2) can produce offspring - new combined flu viruses - with the potential for creating a new influenza pandemic...
Inovio Pharmaceuticals Demonstrates Positive Immune Responses In Phase I Clinical Trial Of SynCon™ H5N1 Influenza Vaccine published
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:00:00 PST
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced today that significant T cell and antibody responses were generated in its Phase I clinical study of VGX-3400X, a SynCon™ DNA vaccine for the prevention of avian H5N1 influenza delivered using intramuscular (IM) electroporation...
Busted! Vira 38 Importer Arrested For Illegal Bird Flu "Prevention" published
Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:00:00 PST
In 2005 the bird or avian flu was no joke. Charles Hensley, however, has been arrested for pushing medications in 2005 and marketing the illegal drug Vira 38, not approved by the FDA or in Hong Kong for that matter, which was supposedly able to prevent symptoms of the deadly outbreak that gripped the globe. Hensley has pleaded not guilty...
Mathematical Modeling Of Migratory Birds, Domestic Poultry And Bird Flu published
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:00:00 PST
The persistence and recurrence of H5N1 avian influenza in endemic regions can largely be blamed on movement and infection by migratory birds. Trade in poultry, poultry products and caged birds, and movement of wild birds also account for H5N1 prevalence in these areas...
Avian Influenza In Missouri Farm, Department Of Agriculture Investigates published
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:00:00 PST
A farm with a case of Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is being investigated by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Authorities say the poultry in the farm has been quarantined after initial laboratory results were returned. The Department of Agriculture describes the Avian influenza as the low pathogenic virus strain H7N3...
Wild Birds May Play A Role In The Spread Of Bird Flu, New Research Suggests published
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 PST
Wild migratory birds may indeed play a role in the spread of bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1. A study by the U.S...
Livestock Boom Risks Aggravating Animal 'Plagues,' Poses Threat To Food Security And World's Poor published
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 PST
Increasing numbers of domestic livestock and more resource-intensive production methods are encouraging animal epidemics around the world, a problem that is particularly acute in developing countries, where livestock diseases present a growing threat to the food security of already vulnerable populations, according to new assessments reported today at the International Conferen...
)
|
|
