News tagged with avian influenza
Manufacturing genes to attack flu virus
An international research team has manufactured a new protein that can combat deadly flu epidemics.
May 27, 2012 |
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Details of lab-made bird flu won't be revealed (Update)
The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people - and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that are easier to spread.
Dec 20, 2011 |
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GM chickens that don't transmit bird flu developed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chickens genetically modified to prevent them spreading bird flu have been produced by researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh.
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Of swine, birds and men -- pandemic H1N1 flu
Current research suggests that pandemic H1N1 influenza of swine origin has distinct means of transmission from the seasonal flu, yet does not result in the pathogenic severity of avian flu viruses. The related report by ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Copper iodide nanoparticles effective against 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus
Copper-iodide nanoparticles have long-lasting antiviral activity against the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, according to a paper in the February issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Earlier Flu Viruses Provided Some Immunity to Current H1N1 Influenza, Study Shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Davis, researchers studying the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, formerly referred to as "swine flu," have identified a group of immunologically important sites on the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Novel compound found effective against avian influenza virus
A novel compound is highly effective against the pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, including some drug-resistant strains, according to new research led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison virologist.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Avian influenza strain primes brain for Parkinson's disease
At least one strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus leaves survivors at significantly increased risk for Parkinson's disease and possibly other neurological problems later in life, according to new research from St. Jude ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Borne on the Wing: Avian Influenza Risk in U.S. Wild Songbirds Mapped
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that 22 species of passerines--songbirds and perching birds--in the contiguous U.S. are carriers of low-pathogenicity avian influenza. Pathogenicity is the ability ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Scientists put interactive flu tracking at public's fingertips
New methods of studying avian influenza strains and visually mapping their movement around the world will help scientists more quickly learn the behavior of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus, Ohio State University ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Bird flu virus remains infectious up to 600 days in municipal landfills
Amid concerns about a pandemic of swine flu, researchers from Nebraska report for the first time that poultry carcasses infected with another threat — the 'bird flu' virus — can remain infectious in municipal ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 27, 2009 |
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Avian Flu Research Sheds Light on Swine Flu Outbreak (w/Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by University of Maryland researchers suggests that the potential for an avian influenza virus to cause a human flu pandemic is greater than previously thought. Results also illustrate ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Compound found to safely counter deadly bird flu
The specter of a drug-resistant form of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza is a nightmare to keep public health officials awake at night.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Human nose too cold for bird flu, says new study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Avian influenza viruses do not thrive in humans because the temperature inside a person's nose is too low, according to research published today in the journal PLoS Pathogens. The authors of the ...
May 15, 2009 |
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Shades of 1918? New study compares avian flu with a notorious killer from the past
In the waning months of the First World War, a lethal virus known as the Spanish flu (influenza A, subtype H1N1), swept the United States, Europe and Asia in three convulsive waves. The year was 1918. The ...
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Feb 10, 2009 |
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