Archive for the ‘Bird Flu / Avian’ Category
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
A new approach to simulate the transmission of infectious diseases, such as avian influenza, between people has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Using novel computer modelling software, Professor Yang and his team from the University of Southampton, have modelled the spread of a hypothetical disease ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Rapid responses by Turkey's health authorities and key health personnel were critical in bringing the 2007 bird flu outbreak under control, according to research published in the online open access journal, BMC Public Health. Those involved cite poverty and families sharing their ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
ImmuneRegen announced additional findings from small animal studies of its lead clinical candidate, Viprovex, for treatment of infectious diseases. Ongoing studies in an accepted model for human respiratory virus infection, the Cotton Rat (Sigmodon hispidus), continue to show the ability of Viprovex to decrease the symptoms and aftereffects of certain ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has lifted most remaining movement restrictions on birds and bird products in Saskatchewan. The move follows extensive testing of birds within the province. No additional cases of avian influenza were found. This brings an official end to the avian influenza response operation, ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Early results of a 12 million pound, 4-year EU study on the benefits of organic food suggest that some of them, such as fruit, vegetables and milk, are more nutritious than non-organically produced food and may contain higher concentrations of cancer fighting and heart beneficial antioxidants. The results were released ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
New findings, reported today in the online open access journal Respiratory Research, about how the virus binds to the respiratory tract and lung suggest children may be particularly susceptible to avian influenza,. The results also mean that previous receptor distribution studies may have to be re-evaluated. John ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that the global capacity to manufacture human vaccine against the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is higher than it estimated last year. WHO representatives told the press in Geneva yesterday that scientific advances and increases in production capability have caused vaccine experts ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
The United States will support FAO's avian influenza control and prevention program with an additional US$38 million, FAO announced. The United States is one of the biggest donors to the agency's program. With the new funding, US support to the FAO avian influenza program has reached a total ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Rice University have developed a three-dimensional, molecular map that could yield clues about the genetic mutations that will allow bird flu to spread among humans.The research, which appears this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) Online Early ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Smiths Detection, part of the global technology business Smiths Group, today announces it is to launch a portable detection system that will enable veterinarians to carry out on-site diagnosis of animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth and avian flu. This new technology means vets will be able to diagnose diseases in ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
US scientists have shown that the deadly strain of bird flu H5N1 that has so far killed 201 of the 329 people it has infected worldwide since 2003 is gradually evolving to a pandemic form that will spread easily from human to human.In a study published in the journal ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Last month a collaboration of European and Asian researchers launched a new attack against the deadly bird flu virus, harnessing the combined power of more than 40,000 computers across 45 countries to boost the pace of anti viral drug discovery. Called Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, the computing grid ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has completed the humane depopulation of birds on the farm in Saskatchewan where highly pathogenic H7N3 avian influenza was detected last week. CFIA's actions are consistent with international scientific recommendations and guidelines and significant experience in previous avian influenza detections and training exercises. ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Quick identification of avian influenza infection in poultry is critical to controlling outbreaks, but current detection methods can require several days to produce results.A new biosensor developed at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) can detect avian influenza in just minutes. In addition to being a rapid test, the biosensor ...
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