Tuesday 16 09 08
The body of an aristocrat who died nearly 90 years ago has been exhumed in the hope that it will help combat a future flu pandemic. |
Wednesday 10 09 08
A vaccine to combat the most dangerous form of bird flu is to be tested on people in Leicestershire. |
Wednesday 10 09 08
Avian influenza |
Monday 01 09 08
Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust are to examine what is preventing the H5N1 avian influenza virus from causing a human pandemic and what mutations are required to realise its deadly potential. The research could hold the key to early identification of a potential influenza pandemic, and to developing drugs and a vaccine. Since its reappearance in 1997, the H5N1 influenza virus has caused disease and death in millions of birds around the globe. |
Monday 18 08 08
Scientists say victims of the 1918 flu virus that killed 50m still have protection, which may help in new bird flu treatments. |
Thursday 14 08 08
UK experts developing a testing machine for bird flu say it could save lives by cutting the time it takes to detect outbreaks. |
Friday 08 08 08
A farmer whose business was at the centre of a bird flu outbreak is fined £4,000 for breaching regulations. |
Tuesday 29 07 08
PR Newswire -
Expanded dove bag limits top the list of changes to dove and early Canada goose seasons that will open Sept. 1, as part of Pennsylvanias 2008-09 migratory bird seasons announced today by Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe.
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Tuesday 29 07 08
 AFP - A cat found dead in a South Korean city was infected with a virulent strain of bird flu, the first mammal in the country known to have had the H5N1 virus, health officials said on Tuesday.
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Monday 28 07 08
Reuters - An outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus
has been found in two Nigerian poultry markets, the first
discovery in almost 10 months in Africa's most populous nation,
the agriculture ministry said on Monday. |
Wednesday 23 07 08
 AFP - Bird flu chiefs from across Southeast Asia have agreed to assess the ability of their governments to respond to a deadly human pandemic of the virus, an Indonesian official said Wednesday.
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Tuesday 22 07 08
 AFP - South Korea will start year-round monitoring for bird flu after this year's outbreak -- the country's worst -- began later than normal, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday.
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Saturday 19 07 08
Inovio Biomedical Corporation (AMEX:INO), a leader in enabling the development of DNA vaccines using a proprietary electroporation-based DNA delivery platform, announced recently pre-clinical results from two proprietary plasmid DNA-based universal influenza vaccine candidates using the company's proprietary electroporation delivery technology and, specifically, a new intradermal device. |
Friday 18 07 08
Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL) announced a breakthrough with preliminary clinical trial data demonstrating that DNA vaccines can safely achieve significant immune responses against H5N1 pandemic influenza in humans. |
Friday 18 07 08
Information relevant to Indiana's current pandemic influenza preparedness plan was presented July 16 during a symposium convened by the Indiana State Department of Health and the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, "The Ethics of Pandemic Influenza Planning in Indiana: What Have We Done and |
Thursday 17 07 08
AP - An Indonesian cargo worker died of bird flu, relatives confirmed Thursday, raising the unofficial toll in the world's hardest hit nation to 111 in three years.
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Thursday 17 07 08
Reuters - A DNA-based vaccine against avian
influenza can safely stimulate the immune system to levels
expected to protect against flu, San Diego-based Vical Inc
reported on Thursday.
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Thursday 17 07 08
New evidence suggests that a booster vaccination against H5N1 avian influenza given years after initial vaccination with a different strain may prove useful in controlling a potential future pandemic. The study is published in the August 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. H5N1 continues to pose a major health risk to birds and humans. |
Wednesday 16 07 08
Scientists and researchers have taken a big step closer to a cure for the most common strain of avian influenza, or "bird flu," the potential pandemic that has claimed more than 200 lives and infected nearly 400 people in 14 countries since it was identified in 2003. Researchers at the U.S. |
Tuesday 15 07 08
Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL) announced the scheduled presentation of preliminary human safety and immunogenicity data from a Phase 1 trial of the company's Vaxfectin(R)-formulated H5N1 pandemic influenza DNA vaccines on Thursday, July 17, at the IBC Life Sciences Next Generation Vaccines conference (National Harbor, MD - July 17-18). Vical's Vice President of Vaccine Research, Larry R. Smith, Ph.D. |