URGENT WARNING: H5N1 DNA in Flu Vaccine
[The Invisible Opportunity: Hidden Truths Revealed] Flu Mist a popular over the counter live flu vaccine has been found to contain two H5N1 DNA markers, these markers seem to have been sewn into the flu mist vaccine to ensure that H5N1 or another strain of Avian Flu goes pandemic. This is going to cause major problems before long, it is imperative that people are warned about flu mist.
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July 02, 2008
AVIAN FLU UPDATE
[Entangled States] Indeed, it is conceivable at least in European and U.S. populations that there is likely a greater risk from being immunized with these vaccine(s) than contracting the avian flu. Also one has to consider whether these products will be able to adequately protect against any number of the highly infectious-in-humans variants of H5N1 if the need to use them ever arise.
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Posted at 09:04 AM
July 02, 2008
Potential new way to vaccinate against avian flu
[Medical News] Instead of injecting a live or killed virus, Penn researchers injected three different species of animal models with synthetic DNA vaccines that are not taken from the flu microbe, but trick the immune system into mounting a broad response against pandemic flu, including strains to which the immune system was never exposed. Antibodies induced by the vaccine rapidly reached protective levels in all three animal species.
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Posted at 09:02 AM
June 30, 2008
Mismanaging avian flu in Benin
[grain.org RSS] This activity has being growing at a rate of 5.9 per cent per year, compared with grain production, which has grown by only 0.4 per cent. In the absence of well-developed compensation programmes, it is the small farmers who run the risk of being wiped out.
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Posted at 09:02 AM
Bird Flue
[Bird Flue] Stomach Flue The complete genetic coding sequences of 150 different avian influenza viruses were released in May 2008 by US Department of Agriculture scientists and government, industry and university collaborators The provincial government has transferred an official of the livestock department from Swabi to Mardan as punishment for allegedly disclosing that H5N1 strain of bird flu influenza had been detected in a poultry farm of the district, .Bird Flue Bird flu -- also referred to as avian flu or H5N1 -- is an important health issue.
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Posted at 09:01 AM
June 27, 2008
Avian Influenza Technical Advisor, Thailand, USAID
[Work, Travel, Eat, Sleep] In September 2005, faced with the growing threat of HPAI in Southeast Asia, USAID made avian and pandemic influenza a top priority for all missions and posts worldwide and asked missions to support implementation of an emergency containment plan in the shortest time possible. Since that time, the U.S. Congress has pledged over $434 million to support HPAI prevention and control activities outside the United States.
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Posted at 09:06 AM
Fears of pandemic remain despite progress combating avian ...
[INFLUENZA] By Shipra Prakash 24 June 2008 [MEDIAGLOBAL]: Even as Dr. David Nabarro, the United Nations System Influenza Coordinator, was speaking to a group of …
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Posted at 09:01 AM
June 25, 2008
Nabarro: Avian Flu Not Yet under Control
[thepoultrysite - Industry News] The Statesman's report continues that Dr Nabarro highlighted the preparations under way for a global conference on the state of H5N1 and other highly pathogenic avian influenza and preparedness for a pandemic to be hosted by Egypt in Sharm El-Sheikh in October.
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Posted at 09:02 AM
World Not Prepared for Avian Flu Pandemic
[ThePoultrySite - Industry News] The report continues that without a vaccine against the deadly H5N1 strain, it will be impossible to protect billions of people who would be at risk should a pandemic start soon. This was the stark warning given by officials from the US, UK and World Health Organization (WHO) at the International Congress on Infectious Diseases in Kuala Lumpur.
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Posted at 09:01 AM
June 23, 2008
Face the avian flu
[Digg / upcoming] Farmers on work drink the water from rice paddies!] and people - and not chickens - have emerged as the most significant factors in the spread of avian influenza in Thailand and Viet Nam, according to a study carried out by a group of experts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and associated research centres.
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Posted at 09:02 AM
Treatment for avian flu?
[Mystery Rays from Outer Space] but he has worked on on avian influenza for a long time as well.) Their trick was to use triple therapy: a dual blockade of cytokines, plus antiviral treatment. None of these treatments worked alone.
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Posted at 09:01 AM
June 20, 2008
Another H5N1 Case Reporting Failure in Indonesia
[Recombinomics Whats New] The commentary discusses a lab confirmed H5N1 case in Indonesia that was not reported to WHO. (06/19/08 18:03)
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Posted at 09:02 AM
WHO Oversight Failures Raise H5N1 Pandemic Concerns
[Recombinomics Whats New] The commentary discusses the lack of WHO oversight on reports of H5N1 infections in human cases and clusters. (06/19/08 20:04)
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Posted at 09:01 AM
June 18, 2008
Australia approves human bird flu vaccine
[GMA News.tv] CSL's current vaccine is derived from the bird flu virus circulating in Vietnam, said Neil Formica, a vaccine researcher at the company. In trials, it appeared to provide some protection against other versions of the virus, such as the one circulating in Indonesia, he said.
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Posted at 09:03 AM
China confirms bird flu outbreak
[AussieIndoLanka-Blog] Laboratory tests of dead ducks at Yashan village recently detected the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the agriculture ministry said in a brief statement, without saying when the outbreak took place.
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Posted at 09:01 AM
June 16, 2008
H5N1 Swan Surveillence in England
[NightBlogger] Locals alerted harbour master Richard Jones on Wednesday, and his team recovered three dead swans in the morning, followed by four more in the afternoon. Yesterday the team were back at the riverbank after residents reported another swan appeared to be ill.
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Posted at 09:01 AM
Clinical Trial for H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccine
[Brain Blogger] Since the virus was first detected in Guangdong Province, China in 1996, H5N1 (Bird Flu) has received much attention as the fear of a global spread of the disease mounted. Initially, H5N1 was considered merely interesting;
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Posted at 09:01 AM
June 13, 2008
Bird Flu Update: Whole-Virus H5N1 Vaccine Tested Successfully
[Right Mind] In a combined phase 1 and 2 study designed and conducted largely by the manufacturer, nearly 300 volunteers in Singapore and Austria received various doses of the whole-virus vaccine. The vaccine was immunogenic both against the primary strain of H5N1 used in the vaccine as well as against two other strains of H5N1 tested.
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Posted at 09:07 AM
New Human H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccine From Baxter Shows Promise In Trial
[KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] Results of a phase I and phase II trial on a new human vaccine against the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus that is made from cell culture instead of embryonated eggs (making it faster and cheaper to produce) show that it is safe and .
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Posted at 09:05 AM
June 11, 2008
CDC warns travelers to Hong Kong of avian flu - The China Po
[Digg / upcoming] The study, which examined a series of waves of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Thailand and Viet Nam between early 2004 and late 2005, was initiated and coordinated by FAO senior veterinary officer Jan Slingenbergh and just published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
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Posted at 09:03 AM
Avian Flu in Hong Kong, Bright Lighting and Dementia, Dyscalculia ...
[Health] (June 10, 2008 - Insidermedicine) From Hong Kong - According to Hong Kong's information services department, the H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been reported at a poultry market.
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Posted at 09:02 AM
June 09, 2008
Indonesia criticised over change in bird flu reporting policy
[Medical News] While officials in Indonesia are demanding equal access to any vaccines that are made against bird flu, the U.S. and Indonesia remain embroiled in a dispute over the future of a U.S. naval laboratory in Jakarta, regarding virus transfers and the number of U.S. staff allowed to have diplomatic status.
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