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[Zap*Germs] Increasing Focus on Animal Diseases Infecting... : Bernard Vallat, Director-General of the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health, told Bloomberg.com that the problem is that poor nations where dangerous animal diseases exist have little funding available for public health services, veterinary treatment, animal-disease surveillance and to compensate farmers who have to destroy herds and flocks in response to disease outbreaks (such as bird flu) that threaten humans. Vallat said that only about 30 countries that are members of his organization have the resources and systems to respond quickly to outbreaks of disease in animals, leaving 140 that need some support.
[The Coming Influenza Pandemic?] March 22 Flu Update: Slated for publication in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, their findings of an atypical pattern of infection - deep in the lungs, away from the tracheal lining where virus could easily be coughed out at others - may help explain why H5N1 influenza doesn't yet spread easily among people.So did Gina Kolata, based on an interview with Jeffrey Tauenberger.
[Avianfluhelp.blogspot.com] Avian Flu Help (H5N1): At the time we noted that there was no WHO H5N1 Reference Lab or National Influenza Centers based in Jordan to conduct these tests, however, there were 3 WHO Collaborating Centers in the country where the test might have been carried out at one of them. According to the report by the WHO today, confirming that there was no Bird Flu in Iraq, Maria Cheng mentions that the information that they receieved on the Iraqi test samples were requested from the WHO Eastern Mediterranean office, based in Cairo, which was following up the case.
[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.
[Scienceblog.com] Vaccine provides 100 percent protection against avian flu virus in ...: Based on the published sequence of the Vietnam strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, members of the University of Pittsburgh Vector Core Facility, led by Wentao Gao, Ph.D., research instructor in the School of Medicine's department of surgery, constructed several adenovirus "vectors"--viruses that have been modified to serve as a vector, or delivery vehicle, for foreign genes or DNA--containing either the full genetic sequence of the HA protein or sequences for only parts, or subunits, of HA. They also constructed a vector containing sequences for a portion of the HA protein from the H5N1 Hong Kong strain.
[Physorg.com] Hungarian researchers find H5N1 bird flu vaccine for humans: Birds that survive the H5N1 virus would have an immunity to H5N1 and produce offspring that would also have an immunity. If poultry flocks could be populated with a sufficient percentage of immune offspring, wouldn"t the flock and the poultry handlers be better protected?
[Bird-flu-updates.com] Bird Flu Updates: The allegations, which he revealed at a meeting in Germany, contrast sharply with China’s official position. 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.
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