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[Medical News] H5N1 is a subtype that is found mostly in birds, although infections have also occurred in humans, mostly in people who have come into contact with the virus through infected poultry. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of the few avian influenza viruses that have infected humans, the H5N1 subtype has caused the largest number of detected cases of serious disease and death.

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[Food and Drug Administration--Recalls] FDA Clears Rapid Test for Avian Influenza A Virus in Humans: H5N1 is a subtype that is found mostly in birds, although infections have also occurred in humans, mostly in people who have come into contact with the virus through infected poultry. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of the few avian influenza viruses that have infected humans, the H5N1 subtype has caused the largest number of detected cases of serious disease and death.

[Press Releases] Scoopasia | Press Releases: many subtypes of type A influenza viruses, distinguished on the basis of different surface proteins (hemagglutinin and neuraminidase proteins). The H5N1 subtype of influenza A is known to cause life-threatening illness and to .

[Financial 24 - Top News] U.S. regulator approves rapid test for bird flu Financial 24: 'The test identifies in less than 40 minutes a specific protein that indicates the presence of the influenza A/H5N1 virus subtype. Previous tests cleared by the FDA to detect this influenza A virus subtype can take three or four hours to produce results.'

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Mild H5N1 Cases in Egypt Raise Concerns: Effect Measure : Pandemic influenza subtypes: end of the year musings: It could also be a subtype not listed as having caused human infections, like an H6 or an H13. The thing that will decide whether a .

[Healthy Zone] Healthy Zone: H5N1 is same as Influenza A virus: 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.[5] 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 nondeadly one. Full-scale production of a vaccine that could prevent any illness at all from the strain would require at least three months after the virus's emergence to begin, but it is hoped that vaccine production could increase until one billion doses were produced by one year after the initial identification of the virus.[6]

[Public Health Agency of Canada - Updates] Avian Influenza Worldwide - Travel Health Advisory- Public Health ...: Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa have all had outbreaks of avian influenza H5N1 Asian strain in poultry since 2003. For updates on the summary of avian influenza A (H5N1) outbreaks in poultry and wild birds across the world, visit :

[Docuticker] Docuticker » Blog Archive » Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ...: From December 2003 through January 2004, the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre, Cambodia, was affected by the highly pathogenic influenza virus (H5N1). Birds from 26 species died.

[Cryptome] Avian Flu H5N1 Status of Germany and Poland: SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared evaluations of the animal health status of Germany and Poland relative to the H5N1 subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The evaluations present our evaluation of the HPAI H5N1 detection, control, and eradication measures in place in Germany and Poland during outbreaks of HPAI in 2006 and 2007, as well as our assessment of the present status of Germany and Poland with respect to HPAI subtype H5N1.

[ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed] Effect Measure : More on the science of the influenza "cytokine storm": Another compound of this class is rosiglitazone, marketed under the tradename Avandia, as a treatment for type II diabetes. PPARs have many interesting biological effects and we have been studying them from the environmental angle and this connection with dendritic cells was new to me and extremely interesting.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: More Media Reports Of Suspect Cases From Indonesia: ATCC develops and isolates novel avian flu monoclonal antibodies: The antibody-based diagnostic test that is being developed by ATCC is designed to provide information about the virus subtype, a capability that is not currently found .March bird flu headlines 2009: Alerts are the top, daily news headlines with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof).

[Flu News Blog] Flu News Blog - WHO grant to develop vaccine for deadly flu ...: A European avian flu pandemic was apparently averted earlier this month after Baxter Incorporated, an American vaccine manufacturer, sent tainted seasonal flu virus samples to the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. Baxter sent the H3N2 flu virus

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Avian-flu-virus contamination found in flu ...: Docuticker » Blog Archive » Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ...: From December 2003 through January 2004, the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre, Cambodia, was affected by the highly pathogenic influenza virus (H5N1).

[H5N1 Avian bird flu forecast blog] Bird flu monthly headline news updates for 2009-01-31 | H5N1 Avian ...: Alerts are the top, daily news headlines with the keywords of H5N1, Avian (bird) influenza (or combination thereof). Since our goal is to forecast or calculate, we view these headlines as interesting indicators.

[Prepared Citizens] Public Health;Pandemic;H5N1;Preparedness; | Prepared Citizens: It identifies sixteen weaknesses in the outgoing Bush Administration’s approach to get prepared for pandemic influenza. In addition, the report provides fifteen critical recommendations for what Congress, the incoming Administration, and the public and private sectors can do to achieve National readiness to combat this threat.

[Medclinician Avian Flu News] Medclinician Avian Flu News » Blog Archive » H7 is dangerous ...: In the treatment of groundwater, the widespread filtration plants for the elimination of iron and manganese are ineffective in eliminating viruses. The goals demanded by the WHO regarding elimination and inactivation of viruses cannot be met, even in Germany with its efficient plants for flocculation and filtration and the common disinfection procedures followed (chlorine and ozone treatment) - whose efficiency declines with decreasing water temperature - due to the fact that micro-organisms clumped in the water are only reduced to a limited extent (through chlorine, ozone treatment, and UV irradiation).

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