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[Food and Drug Administration Press Releases] “Analysis of blood from patients recovering from the H5N1 avian influenza virus can lead to new tools for testing the potential protective activity of vaccines under development,” said Karen Midthun, M.D., acting director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).

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[Vietnam RSS News Feed by Intellasia.Net] Avian flu cases in Egypt raise alarms -- Intellasia.Net: Translations of Egyptian media reports posted on flu-tracking sites say dozens of suspected cases have been hospitalised, but some seem to confuse avian flu with seasonal flu and even confirmed poultry cases. The Egyptian health ministry, which works closely with a United States Navy laboratory based in Cairo, has confirmed 15 human cases this year, with no deaths, almost all were in young children.

[Latest Activity on Fireside Learning: Conversations about Education] avian flu watch - Fireside Learning: Conversations about Education: avian flu latest on ProMedMail A strain of bird flu infecting children in Egypt could be a sign of person-to-person transmission, the World Health Organization said this week. Of 11 infections in the past few .

[Stuff.co.nz - National] Swine flu scare in California - world | Stuff.co.nz: Flu experts are afraid a pandemic could come at any time and are monitoring for new strains. One big fear is that the H5N1 avian flu virus now mostly affecting flocks in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa might mutate into a form that could cause a pandemic.

[AfricaNews - Topics in category Forums - EN] AfricaNews - Egypt reports 66th bird flu case - The AfricaNews ...: Over the past two months the country has seen an increase in bird flu cases so twenty-three people have died of bird flu in Egypt, mostly young girls or women simply because they generally care for domestic fowl in rural areas. However The World Health Organisation (WHO) called last month for an investigation, in the country, into why many of the victims have been young children

[ScienceBlogs Channel : Medicine & Health] Effect Measure : Important flu paper on immune response: The second monoclonal, by contrast, targeted a portion of the HA that was identical in clade 1 and clade 2. In both cases the recognition sequences were on parts of the protein that were separated from each other in the protein sequence but which came close together when the HA was folded (think of a bunched up string that might have its two ends close together although they are on opposite ends).

[Homeland Security Watch] Two adult women diagnosed with avian flu in Egypt | Homeland ...: [...] A few days ago, Phil Palin noted the continuing spread of the H5N1 virus in Egypt: “According to the World Health Organization of the 64 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 23 have been fatal.” [...]

[AboveTopSecret.com Top Topics] Avian Flu Emergency Plan for Federal Employees, page 1: If you read the government's own plans (and they can be found at pandemicflu.gov and elsewhere), they sound rather levelheaded. Yes, there ismention of quarantine (which even the government admits is a last resort and likely to occur in small areas at best), but what else do you do if sucha virus reaches epidemic proportions?

[America.gov-] Egypt Has Lowest Human Death Rate of Avian Flu-Affected Nations: “When we first met at the Ministry of Agriculture, we were reminded that the Egyptian people have been raising poultry this way for 5,000 years and it’s unlikely in a year or two that they’re going to change those practices,” Annelli told the journalists. “We have to recognize that, respect that and [determine how to] interrupt disease transmission without interrupting peoples’ livelihoods, hobbies and love for their birds and animals.”

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Altered Effect of Avian Flu? | Homeland Security ...: Avian Flu Virus Becoming More Resistant To Drugs - FluPandemic.ca: Despite the recent fatal case of avian flu in Beijing, overall avian flu cases in humans worldwide have decreased 55%, from 88 to 40, .Effect Measure : Something to fear from fear of fear : In Alcabes's response to comments at Crof's blog, he seemed to echo this blog's mantra of "strengthen public health infrastructure instead of preparing specifically for .

[ProjectDisaster] ProjectDisaster » Blog Archive » Egypt: Young woman gets bird flu: Some 23 Egyptians have died after contracting the virus. Most came into contact with infected domestic birds in a country where roughly 5 million households depend on domestically raised poultry as a significant source of food and income….”

[Socio-Economics History Blog] Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 ...: “But what remains unanswered are the circumstances surrounding the incident in the Baxter facility in Orth-Donau.”  The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.

[Medical News and Health News Blog Medical Information] Medical News and Health News Blog Medical Information » Blog ...: Arbor Vita Corporation (AVC), a biopharmaceutical company developing both diagnostics and therapeutics, announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its AVantage(TM) A/H5N1 Flu Test. This is a non-invasive rapid diagnostic device for the specific detection of the avian influenza A/H5N1 virus in humans.  AVC’s AVantage A/H5N1 Flu Test detects the influenza virus nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) in specimens from throat swabs or nose swabs collected from patients with flu symptoms.

[Featured Blog Posts - 12.160Mhz] Vaccines as Biological Weapons? Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in ...: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor Key concepts: Avian flu, Flu virus and Pandemic (NaturalNews) There's a popular medical thriller novel in which a global pandemic is intentionally set off by .

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