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[Hawaii's Wild Rooster Blog] Bird Flu | Hawaii's Wild Rooster Blog: The spread of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza through poultry stocks in Asia and recently into Europe raises the prospect that the virus will mutate so that it can be transmitted from person to person, resulting in millions of deaths. In spite of the constant warning from scientists, governments in wealthier countries have responded in an uncoordinated and belated manner, largely leaving poorer countries to their own devices.

[AIndiaNews.com] VGX Pharmaceuticals Avian Influenza DNA Vaccine Delivered With ...: Health experts are concerned that co-existence of human and avian flu viruses (primarily sub-type H5N1) will provide an opportunity for genetic material to be exchanged between the species-specific viruses and possibly create a new virulent influenza strain that is easily transmissible and lethal to humans. The pandemic potential of bird flu highlights the need for novel vaccination techniques that can quickly and effectively respond to emerging viral threats and specifically address the issue of rapidly evolving strain variations.

[Curing Death by Curing Aging] New study compares avian flu with a notorious killer from the past ...: In a new study, Carole Baskin, formerly assistant research professor at Arizona's Biodesign Institute, currently with Science Foundation Arizona, and an interdisciplinary team of collaborators, compared the recent avian strain known in the scientific community as H5N1, with genetic ressortants of the 1918 virus-source of the most severe influenza pandemic in recorded history. The results, which appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, are sobering.

[Javno - World (English)] Antibodies Protect Against Bird Flu And More - World - Javno: In tests on mice the viruses neutralized several types of influenza A viruses, including the H5N1 avian influenza virus, the researchers reported in Sunday's issue of the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Control and Prevention said the antibodies, called monoclonal antibodies because they attack one specific target only, protected mice from what should have been a lethal target of H5N1 avian flu virus -- even up to three days later after infection.

[Erythema] Erythema » Blog Archive » Bird Flu A Global Outbreak A Global Concern: The virus, which does not affect the carriers, is deadly to those who come in contact with birds carrying the virus. When chickens, birds or geese come in contact with a bird carrying the virus through the bird’s saliva, nasal secretions or feces, they can become infected, fall ill and die in 48 hours.

[SignOnSanDiego.com: News] Flu virus neutered in new therapy: Writing yesterday in the online version of the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, along with colleagues at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, identified a collection of human monoclonal antibodies that bind to targeted flu viruses, preventing the particles from entering and infecting host cells.

[PetShowKit.com] Avian Flu Can Spread Among Cats | PetShowKit.com: But for those of you that allow your cat free access to the outside to roam and play (and chase those birds) you might want to exercise some extra caution for a time until this threat passes. It may have seemed cute in the past when your ”˜alpha cat’ decided to bring home the bacon in the form of a dead bird and lay it in front of your favorite chair - that time has past.

[ThePoultrySite - Industry News] More Birds Killed in Eastern Nepal: The test carried out in the Central Veterinary Laboratory in Kathmandu and OIL Reference Laboratory in London detected H5N1 strain of the avian influenza virus in all six chicken samples collected from a poultry farm, some 320 km southeast of Kathmandu, spokesperson for the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives HariDahal said Friday.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: The Bird Flu Watch and Avian Flu Updates | Wish ...: Fresh Avian Flu Outbreaks Hit Viet Nam, Egypt: Elsewhere, authorities in Egypt reported an H5N1 outbreak in backyard birds in the country's Sharkiya governorate, according to a 3 February report posted on the Web .Protein 'tubules' free avian flu virus from immune recognition: Adrien Collins’s homepage: Just another blog.dspot.si weblog: stretches of dna, .

[Covering Health] Avian flu still a danger, CDC official tells fellows : Covering Health: Dowell said there is less anxiety about bird flu, also known as H5N1, than there was in the early days of the outbreak, but it still remains a danger. Since 2003, the disease has infected nearly 400 people in more than a dozen countries in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, Europe and the Near East.

[ProjectDisaster] ProjectDisaster » Blog Archive » Experimental treatment may stop ...: 22 (Bloomberg) — An experimental treatment made from human proteins neutralized a wide variety of influenza germs in a study, including the H5N1 avian flu, the 1918 pandemic virus and some seasonal forms of the illness.

[Socio-Economics History Blog] Is the World Heading Towards Pandemic Avian Flu ? « Socio ...: There have been few, if any cases of human to human transmission. Nevertheless, avian flu has been spreading to many countries and affecting the human population that comes into close contact with the birds.

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