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[Drbobgleeson.typepad.com] Bird flu: The news reports indicate that medical science is hard at work trying to identify vaccines or adjuvants to vaccines or viral blockers to prevent the spread of H5N1. All of these reports are good news, with two cautions: first, medical science is early in the process””success in a mouse model is different than success in a whole human population””and second, success in human trials is still far from large scale manufacturing and distribution.

[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: Even as the World Health Organization presses China and other countries to share bird-flu data for the public good, the WHO itself runs a database limited to a select group of scientists and containing a massive trove of data -- some 2,300 genetic sequences of the virus, around a third of the world's known sequences, according to two people familiar with the database's contents. Any one of those sequences could hold clues to an effective human vaccine or drugs that could kill the virus, or help scientists determine how great a threat it poses.

[Bird-flu-updates.com] Bird Flu Updates: It reports three confirmed cases of H5N1 in people: a boy in Hunan province who recovered, and two women who died in Anhui province, the latest of which was announced on Thursday. There may be another probable case in Hunan.

 [Googleblog.blogspot.com] Official Google Blog: Bird flu basics: The avian flu's jump to humans was first detected in 1997, although all the human deaths reported so far (about 60 since 2003) have been due to transmission from animals to humans. There has been more concern recently because the virus has been detected in migratory birds which can't be caught and killed - and which may carry the virus to Europe and Africa within the next two migratory seasons.

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