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[reliefweb: Latest Maps] World: Areas reporting confirmed occurrence of H5N1 avian ...: Size: 294k Date: 21 Feb 2008 Format: pdf Source: World Health Organization.
[Avian Influenza] Avian Influenza - Situation in Indonesia - Update 40: The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has announced two new cases of human H5N1 avian influenza infection. http://www.who.int/csr/don/2008_02_21a/en/index.html.
[Grassroots Science] Updates on bird flu results, USA AK (HEDDS): Feb 13, 2008: The LPAI H5N1 results table has been updated with information on samples collected on Jan 29, 2008 from a Unknown in Jefferson county, AR.
[birdflunewsflash] Alaskan Hunter’s Blood tested for Bird Flu Virus: A study of the spread of avian influenza has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeking the blood of 200 Anchorage-area sport hunters who have handled wild fowl in the past two years.Researchers will be searching for the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu as well as low-pathogenic strains of influenza, said Dr. Michael Bruce, principal investigator for the study.
[Medical News and Health News Blog] PuriCore’s Sterilox Solution Highly Effective Against Pandemic ...: PuriCore (LSE:PURI), the life sciences company focused on the control of infectious pathogens with its novel, safe antimicrobial technology, announces that its Sterilox Solution has been proven highly effective against pandemic H5N1 avian influenza, a highly contagious and lethal outbreak pathogen. The research showed that Sterilox Solution completely inactivated the H5N1 test strain and passed the US Environmental Protection Agency’s recommended hard-surface disinfection test, which requires two-minutes contact time.
[Psychic Insights] More Accurate 2008 Psychic Preditions come true: Indonesian health officials say the five people - two men, two women and a nine-year-old boy - have all succumbed in the past eight days since contracting the H5N1 virus, responsible for outbreaks of bird flu around the world in recent years. So far, 102 of the 124 confirmed bird flu cases in Indonesia have been fatal, according to a statement issued by WHO.
[Varizone's Weblog] BIRD FLU IN ASIA: Due to the high lethality and virulence of HPAI A(H5N1), its endemic presence, its increasingly large host reservoir, and its significant ongoing mutations, the H5N1 virus is the world’s largest current pandemic threat, and billions of dollars are being spent researching H5N1 and preparing for a potential influenza pandemic. At least 12 companies and 17 governments are developing pre-pandemic influenza vaccines in 28 different clinical trials that, if successful, could turn a deadly pandemic infection into a non deadly one.
[Entangled States] VACCINES AND THE AVIAN VIRUS: . 451 adults were randomly assigned 2 doses of vaccine containing respectively 90, 45, 15, or 7.5 ug of hemagglutinin antigen or a placebo. These 451 subjects were observed for 56 days. The higher the dose of hemagglutinin antigen, the greater the antibody response, i.e., 58% of adults that received 90ug of hemagglutinin antigen had titers associated with protection. Lesser amounts of antigen lower the titers
[tramadolplus blog] H5N1 avian influenza: Timeline of major events (30-7-07): Updated version of the WHO Avian Influenza Timeline Events document. read more | digg story.
[My Gospel Workers Blog] Bird flu remains dangerous as it continues to mutate: “For animal influenza viruses to cause pandemics in human population, their HA protein must acquire mutations that allow human-to-human transmission,” Carole Bewley, a biochemist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., noted in the January issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology. “Fortunately, this barrier has so far protected us from rapid spread of H5N1.”
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