Archive for the ‘Bird Flu / Avian Flu’ Category
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The U.S. Consulate in Kolkata announced that the United States will provide an additional Rs. 4.4 million (US$110,000) for control of Avian Influenza in India following the recent outbreaks in the country. This funding, provided through the U.S. Agency for International Development, will support technical assistance to the Government of ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
The Ministry of Agriculture in China has confirmed there is an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Tibet, the second this year. This follows confirmation that a a 22 year old man from central China died of the virus last month.
Chinese authorities said the Tibetan outbreak started on 6th February, ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
MIT researchers have explained why two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus were critical for viral transmission in humans during the 1918 pandemic outbreak that killed at least 50 million people.
The team showed that the 1918 influenza strain developed two mutations in a surface molecule called hemagglutinin (HA), which ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
The avian influenza virus H5N1 could become entrenched in chickens and domestic ducks and geese in parts of Europe, FAO warned.
The agency stressed that healthy domestic ducks and geese may transmit the virus to chickens and play a more important role in the persistence of the virus in the region ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Highly pathogenic H7N3 avian influenza has been detected in a commercial poultry operation in Saskatchewan, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced recently. This virus is not the same as the strain circulating in Asia, Africa and Europe, which has been associated with human illness. H7N3 is not normally associated ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
The H5N1 avian influenza virus strain can infect an unborn fetus by passing through the placenta. The virus can also infect other adult organs apart from the lungs, according to an article in The Lancet published this week.
Professor Jiang Gu, Peking University, Beijing, China and team examined post-mortem tissue samples ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
The 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, ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
There is a strategy which could significantly boost the production of the avian influenza vaccine, allowing many more people to be vaccinated, according to an article in The Lancet. Professor Geert Leroux-Roels, Centre for Vaccinology, Ghent University and Hospital, Belgium and team said that if they combine the vaccine with ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) announced today that Baxter's 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.
Baxter will manufacture its ...
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