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[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: Even as the World Health Organization presses China and other countries to share bird-flu data for the public good, the WHO itself runs a database limited to a select group of scientists and containing a massive trove of data -- some 2,300 genetic sequences of the virus, around a third of the world's known sequences, according to two people familiar with the database's contents. Any one of those sequences could hold clues to an effective human vaccine or drugs that could kill the virus, or help scientists determine how great a threat it poses.

[Weblogs.nal.usda.gov] Avian Influenza: eMaxHealth.com reports using supercomputers to respond to a potential national health emergency, scientists have developed a simulation model that makes stark predictions about the possible future course of an avian influenza pandemic, given today's environment of world-wide connectivity. The research, by a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, is presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science online the week of April 3-7, and in the print issue of April 11.

 [Time.blogs.com] TIME.com: The TIME Global Health Blog - New Bird Flu Shot: No seriously, if this flu remains center stage it hasn't got a chance in the US. But, I still will keep these things around: box of thin rubbery gloves, $30 face protection masks (better than N95s), four N95 respirators, many stupid hair nets (have too many holes), good pair of goggles that cover the entire eye area, and my big Wal-Mart rubber boots.

 [Wtnh.com] Wtnh.com, Connecticut News and Weather - Low-Dose Bird Flu Vaccine ...: 6 (HealthDay News) -- A vaccine being developed in China to protect humans against the H5N1 bird flu virus is safe and effective at low doses, researchers there report.

[Bird Flu Protection] Drug Maker Says New Bird Flu Vaccine Is Better: Drug Maker Says New Bird Flu Vaccine Is Better A new vaccine against bird flu developed by GlaxoSmithKline is more effective than any previous version and works at a far smaller dose, the company reported Wednesday. The ability to immunize people with small doses greatly increases the possibility of making enough vaccine to protect much of the

 [fluFactor] Tamiflu Anyone?: As a part of the federal governments plan to deal with a H5N1 pandemic, state governments are being asked to chip-in to purchase the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza. Between federal and state owned stockpiles, the feds want to have enough doses of the drugs to cover 25% of the population.

[Limerick Blogs] Tests of an experimental bird flu vaccine: "Tests of an experimental vaccine on healthy adults indicates it can provide protection in case of an outbreak, but only to half of those who have been vaccinated with very high doses. The results draw mixed responses from scientists." Small dose of hope in bird flu fight Well its good they

 [Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak grassroots science] Alaska wants enough doses to cover a fourth of... : printed in the Anchorage Daily News which I don’t think intended this to be satire. http://www.adn.com/life/health/birdflu/story/79391...

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