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[taxfreesee.net] Australian government approves locally made vaccine for humans ...: CSL's current vaccine is derived from the bird flu virus circulating in Vietnam, said Neil Formica, a vaccine researcher at the visitors. In trials, it appeared to provide more protection against other versions of the poison, .

[Oops News] First EU licence granted for pre-pandemic bird flu vaccine: GSK: An Indian health worker carries out a chicken cull after an outbreak of bird flu in the village of Sukna on the outskirts of Siliguri on May 11. British pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline has said that the European Commission has granted the first licence to market a vaccine in preparation for a pandemic of H5N1 bird flu in Europe.(AFP/File/Diptendu Dutta)

[Health Blog] New Human H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccine From Baxter Shows Promise In Trial: Many experts believe it is only a matter of time before the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus mutates into a form that passes easily from human to human, making the possibiity of an H5N1 bird flu pandemic that would kill millions of people a major global public health priority. Hence the pressing need for a cost-effective vaccine that can be produced quickly to work against a number of divergent strains.

[Oops News] Experimental US bird flu vaccine uses cold virus: “This approach may prevent severe illness and death or shorten the course of future infection with H5N1 virus strains that are antigenically distinct from currently circulating strains, and it may offer stockpiling advantages that overcome the limitations associated with storage of egg-derived vaccines,” the researchers wrote.

 [ViroBlogy] Bird Flu Vaccine Launched - But For Whom?: The European Commission has approved a new vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu virus ”” the first vaccine designed to ward off a future pandemic. But how the drug, called Prepandrix, will be deployed by national governments remains unclear.The vaccine, produced by the UK drug giant GlaxoSmithKline, is aimed at the H5N1 strain currently circulating in birds as epidemiologists think that this is the most likely strain to cause a human pandemic.

[Medical Health Articles] Experts: New Bird flu vaccine looks promising: Since the first outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997, more than 240 people in Asia, Europe and Africa have died from bird flu, which kills about two-thirds of people infected. Nearly all had close contact with poultry, but scientists worry bird flu could mutate to a form easily spread among people, who have no natural immunity.

 [from the desk of Tim Blair NEWS & blog: Seattle, King County, Washington US.] abc: Other human vaccines ”” a few using cells or genetic engineering but most made from eggs ”” are being tested in dozens of government and commercial projects. Baxter officials say theirs is the first produced in cells that's been tested in people, and they expect to get a European Union license for Celvapan around year's end.

 [Bird Flu related blog] The New Vaccine Can In the long run Gives the Defense Of meeting ...: In contrast of traditional vaccines of influenza, the new vaccine could be produced and stored by long periods in the preparation for one quickly pandemic of influenza avian illness-causing dangerous - H5N1 - and its variants, had said Suresh Mittal, one virologist of Purdue. In a study more in advance with rats, and its colleagues had found that the protecting vaccine of meeting the H5N1 per one year or more for much time.

[Health Submiter] Experimental US bird flu vaccine uses cold virus: “This approach may prevent severe illness and death orshorten the course of future infection with H5N1 virus strainsthat are antigenically distinct from currently circulatingstrains, and it may offer stockpiling advantages that overcomethe limitations associated with storage of egg-derivedvaccines,” the researchers wrote.

[SouthAsiaNews.com] Vaccine by Indian-origin scientist may protect against deadly bird flu: Washington, Apr 18 (ANI): According to a new study led by an Indian-origin researcher, protection against highly pathogenic bird flu and its evolving forms might soon be a possibility, thanks to a new vaccine which is, at the moment, under development.

[Allen blog--路爽のblog] Chinese doctors report human-to-human bird flu transmission; 1 ...: In an article published electronically by the British journal The Lancet on Tuesday, Chinese doctors reported that molecular analysis showed that viruses from the two men were virtually identical. They were fully avian viruses, meaning they hadn't swapped genes with any human flu viruses or viruses from another mammal.

 [lezlie jodoin] Bird Flu: How to Build Your Immune Defenses for Healing Your Body: Ultimately, until the bird flu H5N1 strain does pass easily to humans, it will not be possible to develop a vaccine against it. Any vaccine would need to have the identical strain of virus that is circulating.

 [The Baseline of Health Blog] Simultaneous Infection with MRSA and the Flu: Health Blog: I work in ER and have had many pt's come in w-flu, etc. All of us who refused vaccines did NOT get sick even though these pt's coughed and hacked right in our faces...our co-workers who got the vaccine, got sick.

[For the Birds] Innocent Numbers and Letters that Reflect a Serious Flu: Although a vaccine against the H5N1 virus known as the bird flu is under development in several countries, no vaccine is ready for commercial production and no vaccines are expected to be widely available until several months after the start of a pandemic. This means an outbreak would have to already be in progress before a vaccine would be widely available to the public.

[Drugs Shop Capsule] Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1: The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) are evaluating these systems for potentiality to bestow to the monitoring of pandemic flu vaccine refuge. If the pandemic vaccinum is administered primarily through public health departments, a registry of vaccinees, with common identifiers allowing researchers to find out the vaccination status of those with adverse events (AE), whitethorn need to be established.

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