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[Healthy Living] Survivors of 1918 Flu Pandemic Immune 90 Years Later: Crowe Jr., M.D., professor, pediatrics, microbiology and immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; Marc Siegel, M.D., associate professor, medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, author, Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic;
[Health Experiment] Survivors of 1918 Flu Pandemic Immune 90 Years Later: profound immune response,” he said. Siegel expects if there is another flu pandemic, some people will develop a lifelong immunity as they did in 1918.
[Health and Wellness News from the Underground] Don't Believe the Hype about the Bird Flu Pandemic: In a nutshell: researchers identified survivors of the 1918 influenza pandemic, and then identified and cloned parts of their immune system called B-cells that produce antibodies that neutralize the 1918 virus. Among other things, they hope to study the antibodies and the ways in which they neutralize the 1918 virus, in order to gain a better understanding of the way the human immune system might react to a pandemic H5 (or other) influenza virus. The more we understand about these antibodies, the more easily we might be able to make vaccines and therapies for influenza viruses, and the safer these things will be.
[Next Big Future] Preventing flu deaths: The researchers hope that in the event of a flu pandemic, such as a pandemic of H5N1 avian flu that had mutated to be transmissible between humans, the new treatment would add to the current arsenal of anti-viral medications and vaccines. One key advantage of this type of therapy is that it would be effective even if the flu virus mutated, because it targets the body's overreaction to the virus rather than the virus itself.
[butner blogspot] How and why the threat of Bioterrorism has been so greatly exaggerated: Clark: I think attention is starting to be diverted into preparing for something like an avian flu pandemic. I also paint a pretty grim picture in the book of the 1918 influenza pandemic. If the 1918 influenza virus were unleashed again ...
[Oriollo - Health Blog] Examining The Avian Flu: From Pandemic Planning To Vaccine Development: Published by Wiley-Blackwell, the assemblage of writing inform an comprehensive brainwave into the danger of the avian contagion pandemic by addressing a panoramic arrange of topics including the base aggregation of the virus, updates on work identification and contagion anti-viral, communication options, and pandemic planning.
[China Info Blog] Virus holds potential to shake the globe: The virus seems to have an affinity for other body parts, too, including the gastrointestinal tract and brain. Indeed, two Vietnamese victims never showed signs of respiratory infection, leading Oxford University researchers - in a 2005 New England Journal of Medicine paper - to wonder whether people were dying without ever being detected as flu victims.
[Dreddyclinic's Weblog] Laser Screen Detects Diseases in Breath: First step for anyone caught up in this avian flu hype nonsense is to take a deep breath and relax and realize the truth here. Unless you are full time bird handler in a third world country that has a seriously challenged immune system you probably have a much better chance of wining the lottery than dying from the proposed avian flu epidemic.
[To be yourself is all that you can do] Pandemic: Avian Flu: Edwin Kilbourne, an emeritus professor of immunology at New York Medical College, who has treated flu patients since the 1957 pandemic and has studied the 1918 flu. The bird flu, he said, is distantly related to earlier flus, .
[Lifeboat News: The Blog] Preventing flu fatalities by stopping immune system overreaction: The researchers hope that in the event of a flu pandemic, such as a pandemic of H5N1 avian flu that had mutated to be transmissible between humans, the new treatment would add to the current arsenal of anti-viral medications and vaccines. One key advantage of this type of therapy is that it would be effective even if the flu virus mutated, because it targets the body’s overreaction to the virus rather than the virus itself.
[Al Hikmah - Latest Health Care News] 1918 Influenza Genes Similar to Modern Bird Flu: John Treanor, a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester who is part of a group of researchers conducting promising preliminary trials of an avian flu vaccine.
[Cloudy Thinking by Ron K. Jeffries] H5N1 Pandemic Context: Andrew T. Pavia, chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah and chairman of the pandemic influenza task force of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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