Experimental drugs touted in the battle against bird flu
JEREMY MANIER, CHICAGO TRIBUNE The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-28-2005 Experimental drugs touted in the battle against bird flu - Last-ditch effort would target minimizing damage to lungs By JEREMY MANIER, CHICAGO TRIBUNE Date: 12-28-2005, Wednesday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions Early
Publication: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
WHO says Asia must consider stockpiling antiviral drugs in face of bird flu o...
EMMA ROSS, AP Medical Writer AP Worldstream 01-30-2004 Dateline: BANGKOK, Thailand Countries around the world should immediately consider stockpiling antiviral drugs in case the bird flu striking Asia's poultry becomes equally contagious among people, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Publication: AP Worldstream
VIETNAM: DRUG RESISTANCE PROMPTS REVIEW OF ANTI-BIRD FLU STRATEGY
Tran Dinh Thanh Lam Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-22-2005 HO CHI MINH CITY, Dec. 22, 2005 (IPS/GIN) - News from Vietnam's Pasteur Institute, the national center of bird flu research, that the deadly flu strain H5N1 has developed resistance to the drug Tamiflu has caused officials to
Publication: Inter Press Service English News Wire
Bird flu drug ineffective
Carolyn Smith University Wire 10-17-2005 (Badger Herald) (U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. - A University of Wisconsin researcher reported Friday a case of the avian flu in a human has gained resistance to a drug designed to treat the influenza virus, raising questions as to how health officials would combat
Publication: University Wire
Fed: CSIRO flu drug works against bird flu
AAP General News (Australia) 02-20-2004 Fed: CSIRO flu drug works against bird flu CANBERRA, Feb 20 AAP - CSIRO scientists have found their flu drug Relenza works against the deadly bird flu sweeping across Asia. Laboratory tests pitted the CSIRO-developed Relenza against a sample of the H5N1
Publication: AAP General News (Australia)
Bird flu drugs are taking on second lives
Andrew Pollack International Herald Tribune 10-08-2005 Growing fears of a global bird flu pandemic are revitalizing drugs like peramivir, a flu treatment that BioCryst Pharmaceuticals gave up on three years ago. Peramivir had failed in clinical trials, in part because not enough of it got into the
Publication: International Herald Tribune
BIRD FLU IS BUILDING RESISTANCE TO DRUG EXPERT URGES GOVERNMENTS TO BUY ANOTH...
Byline: DAVID WAHLBERG dwahlberg@madison.com 608-252-6125 The dreaded bird flu virus is developing resistance to the main drug the United States and many other countries are relying on to combat a possible worldwide flu epidemic, a UW-Madison researcher reports. A sample of the virus taken from a
Publication: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
bird flu drugs go on ebay for [pounds sterling]104; Panic buying drives up pr...
Byline: REBECCA SMITH A DRUG that combats the effects of bird flu in humans is being sold on eBay as panic mounts over the spread of the disease. Tamiflu first appeared on the online auction site for [pounds sterling]1 - and 24 hours later bidders had pushed the price up to [pounds sterling]104.
Publication: The Evening Standard (London, England)
RUSH TO BUY BIRD FLU DRUG ON EBAY; Price soars from [pounds sterling]1 to [po...
Byline: REBECCA SMITH A DRUG has soared in value on eBay from [pounds sterling]1 to [pounds sterling]104 in just 24 hours as fear mounts of a bird flu pandemic. Courses of Tamiflu are being auctioned online as cases of the virus mount in eastern Europe. Today the disease was found in a swan in
Publication: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Bird flu pandemic would drain drug supply.
2004 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) - Prescription flu drugs could provide lifesaving early protection against bird flu if the virus disastrously mutates into a worldwide pandemic, but experts warn that supplies will quickly run out unless governments stockpile the medicines. Early talks are
Publication: Health & Medicine Week
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