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 [sinolinx.com Aggregated China News] Bird flu shows signs of mutation: China expert: "When avian flu is around and human flu appears, this will raise the chances of avian flu turning into a human flu. We have to be very alert and careful in March". A Chinese expert on respiratory diseases says the H5N1 bird flu virus ...

 [Latest Breaking Health News & Information -RSS headlines- Health.am] Bird flu shows signs of mutation: China expert: Thomas Tsang, controller of the Centre for Health Protection, said five other pupils at the school have been admitted to hospital for respiratory infection and their conditions were stable. Three samples have tested positive for influenza A, Tsang said, without specifying the strain.

 [Ekrgriseldastephanie's Weblog] Natural Solutions for Avian Bird Flu: Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness said the country’s waiting so long to address the threat of an avian flu pandemic is the “biological equivalent of not fixing the levees” in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina struck.

[Untitled] Bird Flu Virus Has Mutated Into Deadly Form To Humans: virus-flu-pandemic-labels.jpg (NaturalNews) - The avian flu has undergone a critical mutation making it easier for the virus to infect humans, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and .

 [Discovery] Explanation of 1918 Flu Pandemic Spread: During the 1918 pandemic outbreak, two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus were critical for viral transmission in humans that killed at least 50 million people. 080218172441.jpg.

 [News from indiaenews.com] Why is the avian flu virus so lethal?: Two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus killed at least 50 million people during a 1918 pandemic, according to a team of MIT researchers led by Indian American Ram Sasisekharan.

 [Talk Budgies Forums] Bird Flu Info...: Webster of the World Health Organization (WHO), who first reported the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza back in 2003 and predicted the dire consequences of it spreading, had personally stored at least 90 days of supplies to survive without having to venture out into the public and urged others to do likewise in order to survive a worldwide pandemic of influenza that could result in a pandemic that would surpass the severe and fatal outbreaks of 1917, 1957, and 1968. Then there were reports that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) had failed to develop a serum to prevent the bird flu and the pharmaceutical industry was unable to produce enough cold and flu medicines to meet the coming crisis of an influenza pandemic.

 [newsrx Latest News for Consumers] Bird Flu: MIT explains spread of 1918 flu: "The affinity between the influenza virus HA and the glycan receptors appears to be a critical determinant for viral transmission," said Sasisekharan.

[China Info Blog] Virus holds potential to shake the globe: It breaks into a cell by using its H’s as keys: The gut cells in birds read these proteins as familiar, and allow them in. But in people, it’s usually the cells in the respiratory lining that allow entry.

 [onemedplace] DelSite to Test Needle-Free Bird Flu Vaccine: Public concern peaked over Avian Flu sometime in the first quarter of 2005 and many medical experts still believe there is a possibility of avian flu becoming a human contagion.

[Pharmacy online blog] MIT Explains Spread Of 1918 Flu: The researchers used the 1918 influenza virus as a model system to investigate the biochemical basis for hemagglutinin binding to glycans, which leads to viral transmission. They compared the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic (known as SC18) with a strain called NY18 that differs from SC18 by only one amino acid, and also the AV18 strain, which differs from SC18 by two amino acids.

[On What Is, And What Is Not] Severe Panflu Response Strategies: This work is some distance from describing a preventative capability, but the promise that it holds out is a generally applicable approach to very early stage panflu response. If public buildings, particularly schools, airports and hospitals can maintain a year-round humidity defense from the earliest alerts, it will slow spread in the general population, and allow for easier isolation of early clusters due to reduced size and increased necessary contact between people for transmission.

[WP Test] Cause Of Flu Epidemics Uncovered: The swapping of genes between two closely related strains of the influenza A virus through reassortment may also have caused the 1951 epidemic, which looked and acted in many ways like a pandemic as well. Deaths in the United Kingdom and Canada from this epidemic exceeded those from the 1957 and 1968 pandemics.

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[marty's yet another blog] Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) Pandemic, the Cytokine Storm: What ...: Aventis Vaccine: Preliminary research suggests the influenza A vaccine developed by Sanofi-Aventis is effective against H5N1 avian flu virus. The NIH (US National Institutes of Health) reported on August 5, 2005 (New York Times) that .

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