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Duck Genome Provides New Insight Into Fighting Bird Flu
June 9, 2013 The duck genome consortium has completed the genome sequencing and analysis of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos), one principal natural host of influenza A viruses, which caused a new epidemic in China ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Gives Mice Broad Protection to Pandemic Flu Strains, Including 1918 Flu
May 29, 2013 Researchers have developed a new gene therapy to thwart a potential influenza pandemic. They demonstrated that a single dose of an adeno-associated virus expressing a broadly neutralizing flu ... > full story -
Ferrets, Pigs Susceptible to H7N9 Avian Influenza Virus
May 23, 2013 Chinese and US scientists have used a virus isolated from a person who died from H7N9 avian influenza infection to determine whether the virus could infect and be transmitted between ferrets. Ferrets ... > full story -
Boosting Body's Natural Flu Killers as Way to Offset Virus Mutation Problem
May 23, 2013 The known difficulty in fighting influenza (flu) is the ability of the flu viruses to mutate and thus evade various medications that were previously found to be effective. Researchers at the Hebrew ... > full story -
Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009 More Deadly for Younger Adults
May 22, 2013 As the world prepares for what may be the next pandemic strain of influenza virus, in the H7N9 bird flu, a new study reveals that the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic was deadliest for people under the ... > full story -
Novel Approach for Influenza Vaccination Shows Promise in Early Animal Testing
May 22, 2013 A new approach for immunizing against influenza elicited a more potent immune response and broader protection than the currently licensed seasonal influenza vaccines when tested in mice and ferrets. ... > full story -
Predicting Infectious Influenza
May 20, 2013 A new computer model could help scientists predict when a particular strain of avian influenza might become infectious from bird to human, according to a new ... > full story -
Expert Questions US Public Health Agency Advice on Influenza Vaccines
May 16, 2013 The United States government public health agency, the CDC, pledges "To base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data, openly and objectively derived." But experts argue ... > full story -
H1N1 Discovered in Marine Mammals
May 15, 2013 Scientists detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic ... > full story -
Potential Flu Pandemic Lurks: Influenza Viruses Circulating in Pigs, Birds Could Pose Risk to Humans
May 10, 2013 In the summer of 1968, a new strain of influenza appeared in Hong Kong. This strain, known as H3N2, spread around the globe and eventually killed an estimated 1 million people. A new study reveals ... > full story
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