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[Health Article Resource Center] Health Center Staff Take Lead Role In Preparing Their Campuses For ...: The importance of having a campus-wide plan that is ready – not just in the preliminary stages – when the pandemic strikes is all the more clear when you consider that, unlike seasonal flu, H5N1 has an increased risk for the typical student demographic of young, healthy adults. The startlingly high mortality rate of up to 60 percent is partly due to a protein, also found in the strain of virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic flu outbreak, which causes a response in a healthy immune system known as a “cytokine storm”, often leading to respiratory failure and death.

[PE Hub News: Venture Capital Deals] Slater Backs ProThera: Slater typically invests at the inception stage in the development of a new venture, often based upon ideas and technologies originating in academic institutions and/or government research laboratories located within the region. In most cases, investments are premised upon the possibility of raising substantial follow-on financing, from venture capital investors or from strategic partners, with a view toward accelerating the generation of significant numbers of high-value, high-wage jobs over the intermediate to longer-term.

 [Sushi Tuesday] New Research Indicates that Adrenal Nodules Not Being Adequately ...: By delivering vaccine via DNA constructed to build antigens against flu, along with a minute electric pulse, researchers have immunized experimental animals against various strains of the virus. This approach could allow for the build up of vaccine reserves that could be easily and effectively dispensed in case of an epidemic.

 [Media Matters for America] Wash. Times ' Pruden mocks "hysterics," including those who warned ...: Then it was avian flu, which, to be fair to the alarmists, did in fact result in the deaths of millions. The millions were all chickens, true, but chickens have feelings, too." According to the United Nations, at least 1 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses every year since 1997 and at least 2 million every year since 2003.

[Health blogging] Bird Flu Prompts Huge Poultry Cull In Hong Kong: All domestic fowls at the retail level are culled in Hong Kong as the H5N1 general survey flu virus has been found in three more markets, Director of Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Cheung Siu-hing says.

 [Uploads from Doc Kazi] An exceptional speech on The Challenges of Public Health - Read ...: As the devastating tsunamis in South Asia and the Horn of Africa showed us - images of horror can circle the globe in an instant... and help can be marshaled just as quickly.

 [deathpower] Who Is Carol Rodley (Besides the new US ambassador to Cambodia) ?: The region is particularly at risk from avian flu, which I will discuss at greater length in a moment. Al-Qa’ida-affiliated and other extremist groups are present in many countries, although effective government policies have limited their growth and impact.

[Health and Lifestyle Blog] Health Center Staff Take Lead Role In Preparing Their Campuses For ...: The importance of having a campus-wide plan that is ready - not just in the preliminary stages - when the pandemic strikes is all the more clear when you consider that, unlike seasonal flu, H5N1 has an increased risk for the typical student demographic of young, healthy adults. The startlingly high mortality rate of up to 60 percent is partly due to a protein, also found in the strain of virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic flu outbreak, which causes a response in a healthy immune system known as a “cytokine storm”, often leading to respiratory failure and death.

 [co2sceptics - News Blog] Not dead yet, and cooling: Then it was avian flu, which, to be fair to the alarmists, did in fact result in the deaths of millions. The millions were all chickens, true, but chickens have feelings, too. You could ask the folks at PETA. ...

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