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| "No-Evacuation Required During A Bird Flu Outbreak" Breakthrough Technology To Be Presented At The 5
August 29, 2007 08:00:00The worldwide fear against the pandemic threat of the avian flu is soon to be allayed at the 5th International Bird Flu Summit organized by New-Fields Exhibition Inc., as Dr. Norio Ogata of the Japanese Taiko Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. presents, for the first time in an international conference, the companys experimental data and practical applications of chlorine dioxide against pandemic influenza. The product to be launched uses chlorine dioxide gas to create virus-free living spaces. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Vical Begins Phase 1 Trial Of DNA Vaccine Against H5N1 Pandemic Influenza
August 29, 2007 07:00:00Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL) announced the enrollment of the first subject in its Phase 1 trial of the companys Vaxfectin(TM)-formulated plasmid DNA (pDNA) pandemic influenza vaccine. The double-blind, placebo-controlled trial will evaluate safety, tolerability and immune responses in up to 60 healthy volunteers age 18 to 45 at two U.S. clinical sites. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Study Confirms Limited Human To Human Spread Of Avian Flu Virus In Indonesia In 2006
August 29, 2007 07:00:00In the first systematic, statistical analysis of its kind, infectious disease modeling experts at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center confirm that the avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in 2006 spread between a small number of people within a family in Indonesia. The findings, by biostatistician Ira M. Longini Jr., Ph.D., and colleagues, appear online and will be published in the Sept. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Ducks Died Of H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Strain In German Farm
August 27, 2007 10:00:00Authorities have confirmed that the dead ducks at a poultry farm in Wachenroth, Bavarias Erlangen-Hoechstadt area, Southern Germany, about 120 miles north of Munich, were infected with the virulent H5N1 avian influenza virus strain. Over 400 ducks died in the farm over a short period. Tests carried out at the Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Veterinary Medicine identified the H5N1 virus strain. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Updated WHO Bird Flu (H5N1) Management Guidance Reinforces Tamiflu As First Line Treatment
August 24, 2007 11:00:00The World Health Organization (WHO) has reinforced that Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is the primary recommended antiviral of choice in managing patients infected with H5N1 in updated guidance published on the WHO website. Experts believe that a human influenza pandemic is imminent and could be triggered by the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, which to date has infected 321 humans causing 194 deaths worldwide (as of Aug 16 2007). [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Virtual Online Game Teaches Pandemic Lessons
August 22, 2007 07:00:00Virtual online computer games can teach epidemiologists lessons about how infectious diseases and pandemics like bird flu might spread in the real world, as a recent glitch in the online game World of Warcraft has revealed, according to an article by two US researchers in a medical journal. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| St. Jude Influenza Survey Uncovers Key Differences Between Bird Flu And Human Flu
August 21, 2007 07:00:00Scientists at St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital have found key features that distinguish influenza viruses found in birds from those that infect humans. The St. Jude team used a mathematical technique to identify specific amino acid building blocks that are statistically more likely to appear in avian influenza virus proteins and those that are more likely to be in human influenza virus proteins. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| GlaxoSmithKline Signs Contract For Its Pandemic Flu Vaccine With UK Government
August 20, 2007 07:00:00GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that it has entered into an agreement with the UK Government to provide its pandemic influenza vaccine in the event of a flu pandemic. It is one of the largest contracts signed by GSK to date for its proprietary adjuvanted pandemic flu vaccine.As part of an Advance Supply Agreement, GSK has committed to make the necessary preparations to supply its pandemic influenza vaccine as soon as possible after a pandemic outbreak has been declared. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Cost-Effective Disease Prevention Starts In Wildlife Markets
August 18, 2007 21:00:00Instead of attacking wild birds for our new disease problems, a far more cost effective approach should focus on keeping wild animals separate in the places where they often commingle: in wildlife markets and international trade, according to wildlife health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a recent issue of the prestigious Journal of Wildlife Diseases. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Developing New Anti-Influenza Drugs
August 18, 2007 16:00:00Scientists at Cure Lab, Inc., a biotechnology company based in Canton, Massachusetts, in collaboration with researchers at Boston University and Harvard Medical School have discovered a potential new target for the development of anti-influenza (flu) drugs, including those that may be effective against potentially pandemic influenza strains like H5N1.Their findings have been published in the journal Cell Cycle. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Baxter Awarded Pandemic Advanced Supply Contract From The Department Of Health
August 17, 2007 07:00:00Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) announced today that Baxters European subsidiary in the United Kingdom has entered into an advanced supply agreement with the Department of Health that contains an option to purchase pandemic influenza vaccine in the event the World Health Organization (WHO) declares a pandemic. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
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