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[Liamscheff.com] Liam’s World » Blog Archive » The Bird Flu Breakdown Part 1: Two ...: This NEJM study states in the title that bird flu was to blame: “Fatal Avian Influenza A (H5N1) in a Child Presenting with Diarrhea Followed by Coma”, but a thorough reading reveals that the children lived in a village and region notable for “crowded living conditions and diarrhea,” where there was a high rate of “gastrointestinal infection and acute encephalitis [brain inflammation],”
[Bird-flu-symptom.info] 2005 November Bird Flu: One hundred fifty-three pediatric deaths were associated with influenza infections during the 2003-2004 season in 40 states, whereas only 9 such deaths had been reported in the following season (3). Also, because the cumbersome classical reassortment technique used for preparing the appropriate seed strains makes the yearly process of manufacturing influenza virus vaccines unnecessarily lengthy, new variants first appearing early in the season are rarely considered for the vaccine formulation of the following winter.
[Avianfluprep.blogspot.com] Avian Flu Preparedness: Many published studies have already illustrated the effects of various pandemic scenarios, most commonly a repeat of the 1918 influenza pandemic that had a mortality level of 0.67% in the U.S. and even more severe effects in other countries. Analysis of the virology and epidemiological science shows that more severe pandemics are possible, and probabilistic estimation of virus characteristics incorporating the recent H5N1 suggests that there is a one in five chance of a pandemic that is more severe than that experienced in 1918.
[Avianflu.futurehs.com] Avian Flu » 2006 » January: In 2001, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre and Christopher Basler, also at Mount Sinai, reconstructed the genes for just the two critical surface proteins and sent them on to Tumpey, at that time working at the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Ga. Taking advantage of influenza’s innate ability to mix and match genes from two strains, he combined the two 1918 genes with others from an innocuous laboratory strain to make a complete set.
[fluFactor] A Disturbing New Theory about Bird Flu’s ... : People in Israel are beginning to speculate about how H5N1 bird flu arrived in the country. According to Haaretz.com, an Israeli online publication, sources at the Agriculture Ministry are saying unofficially that they think the disease may have literally walked across the country’s border with Egypt.
[LoopyLibrarian] One for the Morning Glory: Because more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to the pre-eminent remedy - antibiotics - the search for new remedies against bacterial infections is in high gear. Research by scientists from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) connected to Ghent University shows that certain mice, by nature, can withstand particular bacterial infections.
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