Bird Flu Monitor > Better Flu Vaccine Protects Against Spanish and Bird Flu

[Scientific Blogging] Thanks to the collaborative efforts of the CDC and Novavax Inc., a vaccine building biotech company, researchers may have the key to protect against these high-risk and potently infectious strains of the flu virus.  Vaccines can be made from virus-like particles (VPL) to prevent further infection and scientists have utilized this idea to use VPLs from the infamous 1918 Spanish influenza virus to protect against both the Spanish flu and a highly infectious strain of the avian flu strain H5N1.

Previous [Previous] Why Reputation Management is Like Bird Flu...

Next [Next] Avian Influenza in Our Backyards | Britannica Blog...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: » Could Indigenous chickens stop bird flu ...: ..: has the potential to become a human pandemic in proportions that could dwarf the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed millions and is, to date, the deadliest influenza outbreak in .But like many clinical scientists in Southeast Asia, Farrar now works on a number of indigenous afflictions, including malaria, typhoid, dengue fever, and other emerging infectious diseases (2).

[KHNL - News] KHNL NBC 8 Honolulu Hawaii-Preparing Hawaii for the next pandemic: Vivek Nerurkar, the interim Chair of the Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases Department at the University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine.

[St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Fundraising and Donor News] Cell discovery might lead to therapies to shrink death toll in flu ...: The discovery, recently published in the advance online issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, takes on particular significance because of concerns that the H5N1 avian influenza A virus, commonly known as bird flu, might cause the most deadly pandemic since 1918. The Spanish flu killed more than 40 million people worldwide, about 2.5 percent of Earth’s population at the time.

[The Ionic Air Purifier Blog] Ionic Air Purifiers & The Bird Flu Myth | The Ionic Air Purifier Blog: For the good of all of us, I hope there will be some among my readers who are in positions to influence those in authority to check out the claims about ionic air purifiers and generators, be they from Sharp, Seung Chang Airtek Co or whoever.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Toddler contracts bird flu: Africa: News: News24: The Bird Flu Scandel from .US Government to develop a genetically modified H5N1 virus substance that could unleash a man-made pandemic, perhaps more deadly than the 1918 ”ËœSpanish Influenza’ pandemic claiming up to 30 million lives - (and gave the US a quick victory in WWI.

[BACKOGNIZE !] The Bird Flu And The Immune System Don T: Answer: Simply put…and here is a key to understanding how to deal with bird flu (H5N1) - poultry farms are absolutely filthy. The stench from such farms, especially those throughout Asia, can be picked up a mile away.

[8bm.com: news commentary and opinion] A H5N1 Outbreak Could Kill 200000 Americans in 90 days: They say that when this bird flu thing finally graduates to jumping from human to human instead of just from bird to human, not if but when it does, nearly 1 billion people world wide will finally know once and for all which religion was right about all of it, if any.

[Socio-Economics History Blog] The Pentagon’s Alarming Project: Avian Flu Biowar Vaccine! « Socio ...: On April 28 of this year in an official Press Release from Sanofi Pasteur US headquarters in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania and Lyon, France, the company stated, “Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis Group, announced today that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has accepted H5N1 bulk vaccine antigen to produce approximately 38.5 million doses of vaccine to protect against a new strain of avian influenza. Sanofi Pasteur has a multi-year contract with HHS as part of its pandemic program, and will receive a payment of $192.5 million booked in the second quarter of 2008 for acceptance of the bulk vaccine lot.”19

[Hawaii's Wild Rooster Blog] Bird Flu: This January a WHO report entitled “Avian influenza: assessing the pandemic threat” concluded that “all prerequisites for the start of a pandemic had been met save one, namely the onset of efficient human-to-human transmission. Should the virus improve its transmissibility, everyone in the world would be vulnerable to infection by pathogen””passed along by a cough or a sneeze””entirely foreign to the human immune system.” According to WHO estimates, the virus is now endemic in bird populations in parts of Asia and is becoming more pathogenic in mammals.

[Journal] Kawaoka strikes again - Journal - Scott McPherson's Web Presence: "Here we demonstrate that the [hemagglutinin] of the 1918 virus confers enhanced pathogenicity in mice to recent human viruses that are otherwise non-pathogenic in this host," Kawaoka and his colleagues write in the Nature report. Moreover, the viruses with the 1918 hemagglutinin gene caused symptoms in the mice - infection of the entire lung, inflammation and severe hemorrhaging - eerily similar to those exhibited by human victims of the 1918 pandemic.

[ENLIGHTENMENT:] HAVING ROOSTERS PROBABLY WOULD BE AN EXCITING ALTERNATIVE TO ...: When they are infectious they are usually asymptomatic, so the carrier does not have any disease from it. Thus while infected with an avian flu virus, the animal doesn't have a "flu". Typically, when illness (called "flu") from an avian ...

[Useful Information about Bird Flu] Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) Virus Causes, Treatment, Prevention and: Best Syndication News) Within a couple days of the announcement in Indonesia concerning human cases of H5N1 bird flu, officials in Hong Kong are announcing a new wave of bird flu

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, , , , , ,