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 [Biology News Net - Microbiology] Protein 'tubules' free avian flu virus from immune recognition: The two researchers had already recognized the importance of the protein NS1 in the virulence of influenza viruses and particularly, H5N1, a form of avian flu associated with more than half the deaths in a 2004 "bird flu" outbreak that resulted in 50 human cases and 36 deaths in Vietnam, China and Thailand. In all but one case, experts ruled out human-to-human spread of the virus.

[Higher Learning Blog] 1984USA.COM - You Are Running Out of Time!!!: Of the human cases associated with the ongoing H5N1 outbreaks in poultry and wild birds in Asia and parts of Europe, the Near East and Africa, more than half of those people reported infected with the virus have died. Most cases have occurred in previously healthy children and young adults and have resulted from direct or close contact with H5N1-infected poultry or H5N1-contaminated surfaces.

 [America.gov: english] United States Contributes $320 Million to Global Avian Flu Fight: But an analysis of the situation worldwide between January and June ”” in the Fourth Global Progress Report on Responses to Avian Influenza and State of Pandemic Readiness, released in October by the U.N. influenza coordinator and the World Bank ”” says there were fewer outbreaks and fewer infected countries compared to the same period in 2006 and 2007, and no countries have reported first-time poultry infections so far in 2008.

 [Scientist Live RSS Feed] Vaccinating Against Avian Flu - Medical - an eLab Article at ...: The study, conducted by Nega Ali Goji, MD, and colleagues from New York, Maryland, and Alabama, gave a single booster dose of a vaccine based on a clade 1 H5N1 virus circulating in Vietnam in 2004 to subjects who eight years earlier had received two doses of a vaccine based on the original, clade 0 virus that appeared in Hong Kong in 1997. Sixty-four percent had a positive immune response, which compares favourably to the results of a previous study using two doses of the clade 1 Vietnam virus, in which only 43 percent of those vaccinated had a positive immune response.

 [Eureka! Science News - Biology & Nature] Genetic evidence for avian influenza movement from Asia to North ...: Wild migratory birds may be more important carriers of avian influenza viruses from continent to continent than previously thought, according to new scientific research that has important implications for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus surveillance in North America. As part of a multi-pronged research effort to understand the role of migratory birds in the transfer of avian influenza viruses between Asia and North America, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska and the University of Tokyo, have found genetic evidence for the movement of Asian forms of avian influenza to Alaska by northern pintail ducks.

[Free business blog] Free business blog» Economy » The Economic Effect of Avian ...: of the poultry farmers, thus helping to achieve the objectives of this study. The discontinuous regression analysis is used in this study to see if there is the first significant difference between the output of production of poultry in a confrontation after the spread of the virus while the gross income is used to analyze the net returns for growers poultry before and after the spread of the virus.

 [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed] Effect Measure : Bird flu and blood cells: In the present study, we investigated organs obtained at autopsy from an H5N1 virus-infected pregnant woman and from her fetus in an attempt to study the mechanism of systemic dissemination of H5N1 virus. Neutrophils were abundant in the placenta, and therefore, we evaluated blood cells in the placental villi obtained at autopsy to determine whether neutrophils were infected by H5N1 virus.

[Project Disaster] Project Disaster » Blog Archive » Migrating waterfowl may be ...: “Although some previous research has led to speculation that intercontinental transfer of avian influenza viruses from Asia to North America via wild birds is rare, this study challenges that,” said Chris Franson, a research wildlife biologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who helped lead the study.

 [Development News from Afghanistan] Regional Cooperation Reduces Spread of Disease in Central Asia ...: Fred Hartman works with one group, Management Sciences for Health, focusing on controlling six communicable diseases - HIV, tuberculosis, cholera, malaria, polio and avian influenza. He says, for example, avian influenza hit Afghanistan in 2006.

[Project Disaster] Project Disaster » Blog Archive » What relatives of the Bali ...: Influenza Virus (H5N1) in Live Bird Markets and Food Markets, Thailand · Delinquent Mortgages, Neglected Swimming Pools, and West Nile Virus, California · Incubation Period for Human Cases of Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Infection, .

 [RFF Library Blog] Genetics Provide Evidence for the Movement of Avian Influenza ...: It was a highly pathogenic form of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that spread across Asia to Europe and Africa over the past decade, causing the deaths of 245 people and raising concerns of a possible human pandemic.  The role of migratory birds in moving the highly pathogenic virus to other geographic areas has been a subject of debate among scientists.  Disagreement has focused on how likely it is for H5N1 to disperse among continents via wild birds.

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