Archive for the ‘Bird Flu / Avian’ Category
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
A sixth mute swan, which was collected on January 21st as part of wild bird surveillance in Dorset, England, has tested positive for H5N1, the virulent bird flu virus strain, reports Defra (Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs). Defra added that this sixth confirmation is not a ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Recent avian influenza outbreaks in 15 countries demonstrate that the H5N1 virus remains a global threat and requires close monitoring and strong control efforts, FAO said. Since December 2007, Bangladesh, Benin, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Myanmar, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Viet Nam have confirmed new ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
eFoodSafety.com, Inc.'s (OTCBB: EFSF) representatives will attend the Bangkok International Conference on Avian Influenza 2008, Integration from Knowledge to Control in Bangkok from January 23-25. The conference, organized by the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), and other related ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB: AEMD), a pioneer in developing therapeutic devices for infectious disease, disclosed that researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of the Aethlon Hemopurifier® in capturing the highly-fatal H5N1 strain of the Avian Flu Virus (Bird Flu). In pre-clinical studies, high concentrations of H5N1 flu virus (approximately 3 million ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Progress in the planned culling of 400,000 poultry following recent outbreaks of bird flu in the state of Bengal in India are being hampered by farmers and poultry owners reluctant to co-operate with animal husbandry teams sent to carry out the task.According to a Reuters news agency photographer, some villagers ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Carrington Laboratories, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CARN) announced that its wholly owned DelSite Biotechnologies, Inc. subsidiary has successfully completed preclinical toxicology studies of its GelVac(TM) nasal powder influenza vaccine under FDA-reviewed protocols. Successful toxicology studies in two animal models using the H5N1 (bird flu) antigen were required in order ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Anadis Limited (ASX:ANX; OTC: ANDIY), announced major progress in its anti-flu virus antibody program. The milk- derived anti-flu virus antibodies are all-natural and will provide immediate-acting immune enhancement once deposited topically on mucosal surfaces that come in contact with the influenza virus. Results from human trials are ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
The Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza among swans in the Chesil Beach area in Dorset . A Wild Bird Control Area and Monitoring Area are being established by Defra around the premises, encompassing Chesil Beach and Portland Bill, and ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) President Nick Blayney underlined the critical role of surveillance amid news of Avian Influenza having been confirmed in a three swans in the Chesil Beach area in Dorset. "While we must never be complacent about the risk of human disease" he said, "Avian Influenza ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
US scientists have found that the shape of sugar molecules on cell surfaces in the upper respiratory tract determine how easy it is for influenza viruses to infect humans, and suggest that if the deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu were to adapt a way to bind to this shape ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
If the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza ever comes to Kansas, diagnosticians at Kansas State University's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory will be the first to know. The lab, which is part of K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine, is the first place samples would be tested if there ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
In recent years, the bird flu virus has caught the attention of all of Western Europe. In 2007 in particular, there was a lot of speculation about a wide-scale flu outbreak, in other words a pandemic. The Dutch government was worried about running short of vaccine, mainly because it has ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
A human may have infected another human(s) during the last cluster of H5N1 bird flu infections in Pakistan, but only to a small degree, the World Health Organization (WHO) believes. Some of the international test results have not come back yet. The WHO believes that this could be an ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Time Magazine this week cited the approval of a bird flu vaccine earlier this year as the top medical development in 2007. Key testing of the vaccine, the first ever approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent bird flu, was done by doctors and nurses at the ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the eight people in Pakistan who became infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain probably got ill as a result of contact with poultry and some degree of human-to-human transmission. The WHO stressed that nothing has been confirmed yet. This latest cluster ...
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