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Scientists have manufactured a new protein that can combat deadly flu epidemics. The research demonstrates ways to use manufactured genes as antivirals, which disable key functions of the flu virus.
An international research team has manufactured a new protein that can combat deadly flu epidemics.
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GENEVA (AP) — Dr. Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general.
Women who get flu shots while pregnant could also be protecting the health of their babies after birth.
The fight over mutant flu has thrown the spotlight on a little-known government body that oversees dual-use research. Some are asking if it was up to the task.
Women who get flu shots while pregnant could also be protecting the health of their babies before and after birth, a new study suggests.
Vietnam approves new H5N1 project Vietnam's agriculture ministry has approved a project to fight avian influenza in poultry and humans, supported by $300,000 from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported yesterday.
Study: Canine influenza H3N2 can spread to cats In a laboratory study, the canine influenza virus (CIV) H3N2 spread from dogs to cats via respiratory droplets, suggesting that cats could be another host for the virus, according to a report published today in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.
Study: H1N1 vaccine generates antibodies to range of flu strains The pandemic 2009 H1N1 (pH1N1) vaccine produced antibodies in people not only against pH1N1, but also against other influenza virus strains, including H5N1 avian flu and H3N2 seasonal flu, according to a study yesterday from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The antibodies were reactive to the relatively stable stem ...
A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world.
Project allows new forms of client software to join genetic surveillance (Columbus, Ohio, May 22, 2012) – A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world. Associate Professor Daniel Janies, Ph.D., an expert in computational genomics at the ...
Connie K. Ho for RedOrbit.com With temperatures rising and summer rapidly approaching, flu season may seem long gone. However, this is not so for a group of researchers who have discovered that the pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccination, otherwise known as the swine flu vaccine, can produce antibodies against a variety of flu strains like H5N1 and H3N2. This new finding highlights a new dimension to the ...
London, May 22 (ANI): The pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies in vaccinated individuals not only against the H1N1 virus, but also against other influenza virus strains including H5N1 and H3N2, researchers say.
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The vaccine against swine flu seems to offer broader protection against other flu viruses, compared with the seasonal flu vaccine, researchers say.
