Bird Flu Monitor > Working Bird Flu Vaccine - Or Jumping the Gun?
[Technocrat] Baxter claims phase 1 and 2 trials of its bird flu (H5N1 influenza) vaccine, have been successful and also the shot protects against other strains of flu beside producing antibodies for bird flu found in Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Viet Nam.
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[Nature.com] news @ nature.com - Bird flu 2005: the ongoing story - News@nature ...: Tashiro wrote that in his talk he merely pointed out that the World Heath Organisation's official numbers of H5N1 human cases in China include only those that have been confirmed in a laboratory - and they may be an underestimate, since the surveillance system in China is poor. Tashiro notes that he discussed some of the rumoured cases but adds he does "not think that the Chinese Authority will conceal the facts from the world".
[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.
[Bird-flu-updates.com] Bird Flu Updates: The allegations, which he revealed at a meeting in Germany, contrast sharply with Chinas official position. It reports three confirmed cases of H5N1 in people: a boy in Hunan province who recovered, and two women who died in Anhui province, the latest of which was announced on Thursday.
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