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New Method Could Improve Vaccines for Both Seasonal and Bird Flu
piggy submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.sciencedaily.com)
A new computerized testing method could help world health officials better identify those flu vaccines that are most effective against multiple strains of influenza. Rice University scientists who created the method say tests using data from bird flu and seasonal flu outbreaks suggest their method can better gauge the efficacy of proposed vaccines than tests used today can.
Rice's Michael Deem, the lead scientist on the project, will present the group's results March 19 at the American Physical Society's 2009 meeting in Pittsburgh 
New antibodies block a range of influenzas
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nature.com)
Researchers have identified a group of antibodies that neutralize a wide range of influenza viruses, including the H5N1 avian influenza, the 1918 Spanish flu and some seasonal strains. These molecules may one day be used therapeutically to protect patients against a broad array of strains.
Researchers say that this may make it possible to develop a single vaccine against influenza in general, something that the virus's strong ability to mutate has thus far made extremely unlikely.
Scientists: Global Warming May Spread "Deadly Dozen" Diseases
jerry submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (www.foxnews.com)
Bird flu is just one of eleven diseases that may worsen with global warming, scientists are warning. Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society have nicknamed twelve diseases the “deadly dozen” and say they are spreading across the globe and becoming dangerous to human an animal populations.
The other eleven diseases include babesiosis, cholera, ebola, lyme disease, plague, red tides, rift valley fever, sleeping sickness, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. Intestinal and external parasites are counted as one problem.
marry submitted, created time 2 years 2 months (www.time.com)
The first experimental bird flu vaccine made from lab-grown cells instead of chicken eggs shows promise in blocking the highly lethal virus...
Whatever Happened to... Avian Flu?
Sue Wu submitted, created time 2 years 6 months (discovermagazine.com)
For much of 2005 and 2006, headlines about bird flu were sensational (“Virus 911”), fearmongering (“Bird Flu: We’re All Going to Die”), and plentiful, running in major papers daily. The
Pandemic Hot Spots Map a Path to Prevention
jane2007 submitted, created time 2 years 6 months (www.sciam.com)
A new study maps out areas of the world that researchers think are most likely to breed the killer diseases of the future—and the highlighted countries are not the ones getting most of the resources for disease prevention. The analysis is part of a budding effort to identify emerging viruses in particular and prevent future pandemics from reaching their full potential.
Barrier to bird flu transmission found in humans
jane2007 submitted, created time 2 years 7 months (www.nature.com)
Umbrella-shaped sugars that decorate proteins in the nose and throat could be preventing widespread human-to-human transmission of avian flu, new research suggests. Whereas normal winter flu viruses easily latch onto these sugars, the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu cannot. This helps to prevent it from colonizing the upper respiratory tract — a key step in triggering an epidemic.
Bird flu kills 350 ducks in northern Vietnam
Sue Wu submitted, created time 2 years 8 months (www.reuters.com)
HANOI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed 350 white-winged ducks in northern Vietnam this week, the first outbreak in poultry detected this year, the government said on Thursday.
Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, 2nd in week
sumsung submitted, created time 2 years 8 months (www.reuters.com)
A 25-year-old Egyptian woman died of bird flu on Sunday, the second fatality among humans in Egypt in less than one week, the Health Ministry said.
WHO Confirms Human-to-Human Bird Flu Case
jane2007 submitted, created time 2 years 8 months (www.abcnews.go.com)
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Thursday a single case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus in a family in Pakistan but said there was no apparent risk of it spreading wider.
Regular flu vaccine may help against H5N1
Eric wu submitted, created time 2 years 8 months (www.reuters.com)
Bird flu nearly breaks out around the world every year. It not only kill many birds,but also a threaten against our mankind.How should we deal with it? This news may open a path toward it.
Large bird flu cluster emerges
jane2007 submitted, created time 2 years 8 months (www.nature.com)
A team of experts from the World Heath Organization (WHO) is making its way north in Pakistan to investigate a cluster of at least eight cases of avian flu in people living near the Afghan border. They will be seeking to establish whether the disease is spreading, and whether the cases were caused by human-to-human transmission.
Bird flu virus mutating into human-unfriendly form
oryzasativa submitted, created time 2 years 11 months (www.reuters.com)
The H5N1 bird flu virus has mutated to infect people more easily, although it still has not transformed into a pandemic strain, researchers said on Thursday.
There is a hope for Bird Flu Vaccine
Reviver submitted, created time 3 years 3 weeks (www.reutershealth.com)
Experts have long said there is no way to vaccinate people against a new strain of influenza until that strain evolves. That could mean months or even years of disease and death before a vaccination campaign began.
Pregnant Vietnamese woman dies of bird flu
DanyC submitted, created time 3 years 1 month (www.reutershealth.com)
Doctors said on Tuesday, a Vietnamese woman who was seven months pregnant has died of bird flu, the country's third human death from the virus this year.
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