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Bird flu mutates during race against time to find vaccine (Baltimore Examiner)
Found on 21 Jul 2008 09:15 GMT
Avian flu - the H5N1 virus experts think could out-kill the infamous 1918 pandemic flu - mutates every time it infects a human, according to new research out of Thailand.

Inovio Biomedical's First Proprietary DNA Vaccine Achieves 100% Protection Ag...
Found on 19 Jul 2008 11:10 GMT
Inovio Biomedical Corporation (AMEX:INO), a leader in enabling the development of DNA vaccines using a proprietary electroporation-based DNA delivery platform, announced recently pre-clinical results from two proprietary plasmid DNA-based universal influenza vaccine candidates using the company's proprietary electroporation delivery technology and, specifically, a new intradermal device.

Video: Local Researchers May Be Step Closer To Bird Flu Vaccine (FOX 29 Phila...
Found on 18 Jul 2008 06:24 GMT
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are using a new technique to make the vaccine that could be highly effective.

Bird flu vaccine shows promise (Moldova.org)
Found on 17 Jul 2008 18:14 GMT
A California company says its early-stage testing of a new bird-flu vaccine for humans looks promising.The vaccine uses specially engineered bacteria to produce genes of the avian flu H5N1 instead of the conventional, egg-based techniques, adding momentum to developing a faster, safer ways to protect against avian influenza, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.Vical Inc. of San Diego said...

Bird flu vaccine shows promise (UPI)
Found on 17 Jul 2008 18:05 GMT
SEATTLE, July 17 (UPI) - A California company says its early-stage testing of a new bird-flu vaccine for humans looks promising.

Vical says its DNA vaccine for bird flu works
Found on 17 Jul 2008 13:26 GMT
A DNA-based vaccine against avian influenza can safely stimulate the immune system to levels expected to protect against flu, San Diego-based Vical Inc reported on Thursday.

CORRECTED - Vical says its DNA vaccine for bird flu works (Reuters via Yahoo!...
Found on 17 Jul 2008 06:54 GMT
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Vical says its DNA vaccine for bird flu works (AlertNet)
Found on 17 Jul 2008 06:12 GMT
Source: Reuters (Corrects test details, paragraph 2) WASHINGTON, July 17 - A DNA-based vaccine against avian influenza can safely stimulate the immune system to levels expected to protect against flu, San ...

Vical says its bird flu vaccine works (Stuff)
Found on 17 Jul 2008 06:02 GMT
A DNA-based vaccine against avian influenza can safely stimulate the immune system to levels expected to protect against flu, San Diego-based Vical Inc has reported.

Vietnam starts human trials for bird flu vaccine
Found on 03 Apr 2008 16:53 GMT
Vietnam has started clinical trials for developing a human vaccine for the H5N1 virus, researchers said on Thursday in the Southeast Asian country that has recorded 52 deaths from bird flu.

Bird flu vaccine production boost
Found on 17 Aug 2007 01:08 GMT
Researchers discover how to stretch out bird vaccine stocks so more people can be immunised in a pandemic.

Bird flu vaccine '10 years away'
Found on 30 Jun 2006 16:26 GMT
Some experts meeting at a bird flu conference in Paris believe an effective vaccine against a human form of the virus could still be many years away.

Human trials for bird flu vaccine
Found on 31 Mar 2006 13:00 GMT
Human trials of an experimental vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu virus have begun in Belgium.

Avian Influenza Situation in Thailand; status of pandemic vaccine development
Found on 04 Oct 2004 01:59 GMT

2nd: Bird flu human vaccine ready for clinical tests
2nd: Bird flu human vaccine ready for clinical tests BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) - Chinese scientists have developed human vaccines for bird flu pandemic and will carry out clinical tests in days. Liu Yanhua, vice minister of Science and Technology who is in charge of the vaccine research and

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

Researchers Begin Efforts to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine for Humans.
Jan. 28-As another Asian country reported its first cases of bird flu Tuesday, researchers in the U.S. and around the world were beginning the difficult work of developing a vaccine against the virus. For now, the flu strain spreading quickly among millions of birds in Asia is less a threat to

Publication: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)

Vietnam considers bird flu vaccine usage
Vietnam considers bird flu vaccine usage HANOI, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) - Vietnam is preparing for the use of vaccines to cope with bird flu which has reappeared in some southern provinces, including sending experts to Chinese Hong Kong for research and testing effects of the vaccines, according to local

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

Government Working on New Bird Flu Vaccine
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer AP Online 03-06-2006 Dateline: ATLANTA A French vet vaccinates a Padouan chicken against the bird flu with the H5N2 vaccine Monday, March 6, 2006 in the zoo at Strasbourg in eastern France. A lethal strain of bird flu has spread to a region on France's Mediterranean

Publication: AP Online