New Insights Into Enzyme That Enables Avian Flu Virus To Spread

Cindy submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.sciencedaily.com)

Amid heightened concern over a possible epidemic of bird flu in humans, scientists in the United States and Taiwan are reporting critical new insights into the architecture of a key enzyme in the H5N1 avian influenza virus that enables the virus to spread.

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LIAI scientists make important finding on cytomegalovirus transmission

Cindy submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.eurekalert.org)

Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have shown that cytomegalovirus (CMV) in the salivary glands can be reduced and in some cases eliminated through the use of antibodies to enhance the disease-fighting power of the immune system. The research team抯 findings, based on controlled laboratory studies of mice, may also have implications for other chronic virus infections, such as hepatitis and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

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Impact of Maternal HIV Coinfection on the Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus: A Meta-analysis

athena submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.journals.uchicago.edu)

HIV-HCV–coinfected women have significantly higher odds of transmitting HCV to their infants than do women who are infected with HCV alone.

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The insights gained from mother-to-child transmission of HIV

penguin submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (www.nature.com)

“Maternal-infant transmission provides a useful model for the study of immune factors associated with protection against the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus and has emphasized the importance of CCL3 in protective immunity to this virus.”

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Be careful to hepatitis B around, Sweaty wrestlers!

crackpot submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (www.newscientist.com)

Virus particles were also found in the sweat of eight of these wrestlers,Report appears to say that sweat can carry the hepatitis B virus, raising concerns that wrestlers with the virus might spread it to others through cuts and wounds.

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Light Shed On Transmission Of Flu Between Birds And Humans

psychologist submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (www.medicalnewstoday.com)

Another highly infectious avian strain of H5N1, has caused outbreaks of bird flu around the world. There is great concern that this virus might also mutate to allow human-to-human transmission and cause another catastrophic pandemic. This study which is published in the current issue of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, investigates the structure and function of the protein and sheds light on how polymerase mutations contribute to transmission of avian flu to humans.

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