Inovio Biomedical H5N1 Avian Influenza DNA Vaccine Receives Korean Approval T...
Found on 03 Mar 2010 08:59 GMT
Inovio Biomedical Corporation (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced that its affiliate VGX International Inc. (Korean Stock Exchange: 011000) has received approval in Korea to begin a Phase I clinical trial in healthy volunteers for Inovio's SynCon? preventive DNA vaccine (VGX-3400) targeting H5N1 avian influenza...
Pandemic Hybrid Of Bird And Human Seasonal Flu Possible Say Scientists
Found on 24 Feb 2010 09:59 GMT
An international team of scientists has created a highly pathogenic laboratory hybrid of the H5N1 bird flu and human seasonal flu viruses by swapping just one gene, and propose that a similar genetic interaction could happen in nature between the current pandemic H1N1 swine flu and H5N1 avian flu strains, highlighting the importance of continued surveillance...
Virus Hybridization Could Create Pandemic Bird Flu
Found on 23 Feb 2010 11:59 GMT
Genetic interactions between avian H5N1 influenza and human seasonal influenza viruses have the potential to create hybrid strains combining the virulence of bird flu with the pandemic ability of H1N1, according to a new study. In laboratory experiments in mice, a single gene segment from a human seasonal flu virus, H3N2, was able to convert the avian H5N1 virus into a highly pathogenic form...
Adamas Pharmaceuticals Announces In Vitro Data Demonstrating TCAD Therapy Is ...
Found on 23 Feb 2010 08:59 GMT
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc...
Voluntary System Works For Swine Flu Vaccination
Found on 11 Feb 2010 12:59 GMT
Social interaction between neighbours, work colleagues and other communities and social groups makes voluntary vaccination programs for epidemics such as Swine Flu, SARS or Bird Flu a surprisingly effective method of disease control...
1918 And 2009 H1N1 Flu Probably Not Spread By Birds
Found on 20 Jan 2010 12:59 GMT
The two strains of the H1N1 influenza virus responsible for the 1918 and 2009 global flu pandemics do not cause disease in birds. The results of the study, published in the February issue of the Journal of General Virology, also show it is unlikely that birds played a role in the spread of the H1N1 virus in these pandemics...
New Research Findings Can Improve Avian Flu Surveillance Programs
Found on 14 Jan 2010 08:59 GMT
Genetic analyses of avian influenza in wild birds can help pinpoint likely carrier species and geographic hot spots where Eurasian viruses would be most likely to enter North America, according to new U.S. Geological Survey research...
NexBio Initiates Phase II Trial Of DAS181 (Fludase(R)) For Treatment Of Influ...
Found on 08 Jan 2010 09:59 GMT
NexBio, Inc. announced the initiation of a double blind placebo controlled multi-center trial in the U.S. and Mexico of DAS181 (Fludase®) for the treatment of laboratory confirmed influenza infection. DAS181 is an investigational host-targeted drug candidate that blocks entry of influenza virus into cells of the respiratory tract...
Also In Global Health News: ART Access In Zimbabwe; Indonesia Bird Flu Deaths...
Found on 07 Jan 2010 11:59 GMT
Zimbabwe Wants To Boost Access To ART By End Of 2010, Health Minister Says Zimbabwe's government plans work with international organizations to increase the number of people receiving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to 300,000 by the end of the year, up from the 180,000 who currently get the drugs, Henry Madzorera, the country's health minister, said on Tues...
Compound Found To Safely Counter Deadly Bird Flu
Found on 25 Dec 2009 07:59 GMT
The specter of a drug-resistant form of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza is a nightmare to keep public-health officials awake at night. Now, however, a study published this week (Dec...
Medicago Reports Positive Phase I Results For Its Avian Flu Pandemic Vaccine
Found on 22 Dec 2009 08:59 GMT
Medicago Inc. (TSX-V: MDG) a biotechnology company focused on developing highly effective and affordable vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), reported positive interim results from a Phase I human clinical trial with its H5N1 Avian Influenza vaccine candidate ("H5N1 vaccine")...
Scientists Put Interactive Flu Tracking At Public's Fingertips
Found on 17 Nov 2009 07:59 GMT
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 researchers say...
Potential Downside Of Yearly Influenza Vaccination For Children
Found on 02 Nov 2009 07:59 GMT
An article published Online First and in the December edition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases discusses the benefits and disadvantages of vaccination for children against seasonal flu. It reports that infection with "seasonal" influenza A could in fact benefit children by giving them improved immunity against pandemic strains such as the current swine flu H1N1 strain...
Rice, UT-Austin Team Wins Stimulus Funds To Study Influenza A
Found on 22 Oct 2009 08:59 GMT
Rice University scientists have won a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to scrutinize the influenza A virus for clues that could lead to more effective antiviral drugs. Strains of influenza A include this year's pandemic H1N1 variety, some seasonal varieties and the much-feared H5N1 bird flu...
Previous Flu Viruses Provided Some Immunity To Current Swine Flu, Study Shows
Found on 15 Oct 2009 13:59 GMT
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 virus that are also present in seasonal flu viruses that have been circulating for years...
ImmuneRegen BioSciences(R) Initiates Homspera(R) Studies Against Global Influ...
Found on 14 Oct 2009 09:59 GMT
ImmuneRegen BioSciences, Inc.®, a wholly owned subsidiary of IR Biosciences Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: IRBS), announced that its lead anti-influenza drug, Homspera, will be tested for efficacy against highly lethal H5N1 Avian Influenza in the laboratories of a widely respected University scientist...
Egyptian woman contracts bird flu
Found on 15 Apr 2009 22:30 GMT
A 33-year-old Egyptian woman has contracted the highly pathogenic bird flu virus, the fourth case this month, Egyptian state news agency MENA said.
Compound identified that may fight bird flu
Found on 15 Apr 2009 15:50 GMT
Scientists in Hong Kong and the U.S. have identified a synthetic compound which appears to be able to stop the replication of influenza viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu virus.
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