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Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:24:14 +0100

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Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:24:14 +0100

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Google goes pandemic

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:25:56 +0200

GOOGLE'S GANGLY philanthropic arm, Google.org, is reaching out in efforts to predict and prevent the next global pandemic, by throwing $14 million at the problem.

Pandemic Flu Models Improve Food, Quarantine Strategies

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:58:00 +0200

The 1918 flu pandemic killed more than 40 million people worldwide and affected persons of all age groups. While it is difficult to predict when the next influenza pandemic will occur or how severe it will be, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed models to help organizations like the American Red Cross and Georgia Department of Education prepare emergency response plans.

Idaho Unveils Website To Help Idahoans Prepare For Pandemic Influenza

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:58:00 +0200

Is your family prepared for school closures, empty food shelves and no available medical care? Could your business still function with 40% of workers staying home? Will police, fire and critical utility services be available if workers are ill or caring for ill family members? These are things which could easily occur during an influenza pandemic, and the driving force behind a new website that was launched by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare,

Scientists Recommend Stockpiling Influenza Vaccine: Double Flu Jab Needed Against Bird Flu Pandemic

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:58:00 +0200

An international study led by University of Leicester researchers has determined that vaccination will be the best way to protect people in the event of the next influenza pandemic - but that each person would need two doses. In an article in the New England Journal of Medicine published on October 9, researchers from the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester report on a study carried out at the Leicester Royal Infirmary.

Pandemic flu excercise

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:31:05 +0200

By Jarod Wells Tuesday, October 07, 2008 at 9:22 a.m. QUINCY, IL -- A tabletop exercise is going on in Quincy today to discuss and plan a response in the situation a pandemic of flu would break out in the state of Illinois.

Michigan Gets Millions to Prevent Flu Pandemic

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:08:50 +0200

Gets grant from CDC.

Vical and AnGes MG Sign Letter of Intent for Pandemic Influenza Program

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:28:00 +0200

Vical Incorporated and AnGes MG, Inc., have signed a non-binding Letter of Intent indicating their mutual interest to license the development and marketing rights for Vical's pandemic influenza DNA vaccines in Japan to AnGes.

GAO urges HHS to speed antiviral, prepandemic vaccine plans

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:14:02 +0200

Oct 6, 2008 (CIDRAP News) ? In a recent progress report to Congress on federal influenza pandemic response planning, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recognized a host of obstacles but cited two areas that officials could make headway on: finalizing guidance on allocating antivirals and developing guidance on how to prioritize groups to receive prepandemic vaccine in the early stages ...

Global AIDS pandemic -- factfile

Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:49:29 +0200

PARIS -- Following is a snapshot of the global AIDS pandemic after France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier were both awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for their discovery of the HIV virus.

Rethinking Who Should Be Considered 'Essential' During A Pandemic Flu Outbreak

Sun, 5 Oct 2008 18:04:11 +0200

Not only are doctors, nurses, and firefighters essential during a severe pandemic influenza outbreak. So, too, are truck drivers, communications personnel, and utility workers. That's the conclusion of a Johns Hopkins University article to be published in the journal of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. The report, led by Nancy Kass, Sc.

New Data For GlaxoSmithKline's Pre-pandemic H5N1 Influenza Vaccine, Prepandrix?, Show Administration Flexibility For Pandemic Planning

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:58:00 +0200

Results from two new clinical studies announced at the Third European Influenza Conference (ESWI) demonstrate that Prepandrix?, GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) H5N1 adjuvanted pre-pandemic influenza vaccine, confers broad cross-clade immunity that is maintained when the second dose is given many months after the first dose, and even if the second dose is formulated from a different H5N1 strain.

Monitoring For 'Pandemic' Mutations By Examining Bird Flu Infections

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:58:00 +0200

Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust are to examine what is preventing the H5N1 avian influenza virus from causing a human pandemic and what mutations are required to realise its deadly potential. The research could hold the key to early identification of a potential influenza pandemic, and to developing drugs and a vaccine. Since its reappearance in 1997, the H5N1 influenza virus has caused disease and death in millions of birds around the globe.

Flu Antibodies Recovered From 1918 Pandemic Survivors

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:58:00 +0200

Scientists in the US recovered antibodies to the 1918 flu virus from elderly survivors of the pandemic, used them to create cell lines of monoclonal antibodies and then showed they were still potent by injecting them into infected mice that survived, whereas the controls did not.

Canopus Biopharma And Leading Chinese Researcher Team Up To Treat Avian Influenza, To Prevent Possible Pandemic

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:58:00 +0200

An internationally renowned avian influenza expert hailed "encouraging and exciting" results from experiments conducted by his research team. This study demonstrated impressive efficacy of a novel statin/caffeine combination, StatC? in the treatment and prevention of H5N1, H1N1 and H3N2 in a mouse model. Dr.

Flu pandemic 'gravest risk to UK'

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:44:37 +0200

A National Risk Register commissioned by the prime minister cites a flu pandemic as the gravest threat to security.

Pandemic Research Receives $1.6M Funding Boost

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:58:00 +0200

Densely populated cities and increased air travel can be factors which create and spread pandemic disease. But a McMaster University researcher is working with isolated Hutterite communities to understand the transmission of pandemic diseases like influenza. Dr. Mark Loeb and his research team have received $1.

More Investment In International Surveillance Of Infectious Diseases Vital To Prevent Future Pandemics - Lords Committee, UK

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:58:00 +0200

An influential Lords Committee have today reported that a new and potentially deadly infectious disease emerges somewhere in the world every year and it is vital that there is more investment in international surveillance if pandemics are to be avoided.

Fear over pandemic disease effort

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:09:33 +0200

More needs to be done to protect against outbreaks of infectious diseases, a Lords report says.

Vical Announces Breakthrough For Pandemic Influenza DNA Vaccines With Preliminary Human Data

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:58:00 +0200

Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL) announced a breakthrough with preliminary clinical trial data demonstrating that DNA vaccines can safely achieve significant immune responses against H5N1 pandemic influenza in humans.

Indiana Health Officials Examine State's Pandemic Influenza Ethics Planning

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:58:00 +0200

Information relevant to Indiana's current pandemic influenza preparedness plan was presented July 16 during a symposium convened by the Indiana State Department of Health and the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, "The Ethics of Pandemic Influenza Planning in Indiana: What Have We Done and

Possible Future Avian Influenza Pandemic May Be Eased By Booster Vaccination

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:58:00 +0200

New evidence suggests that a booster vaccination against H5N1 avian influenza given years after initial vaccination with a different strain may prove useful in controlling a potential future pandemic. The study is published in the August 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. H5N1 continues to pose a major health risk to birds and humans.

Care staff plan for flu pandemic

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:50:11 +0200

Social care providers on the Isle of Man are meeting to discuss what action to take in the event of a flu pandemic.

Multiple meds needed to stop bird flu pandemic

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:45:39 +0200

Governments need to stockpile different sorts of flu drugs ? not just Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu ? to counter the danger of resistance in a pandemic triggered by bird flu, British experts said on Wednesday.

Ministers plan for flu pandemic

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:31:09 +0100

More than �100m is being spent stockpiling medicine to prepare Scotland for pandemic flu.

Pandemic flu drug order doubles

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:16:19 +0100

Britain is doubling its stockpile of antiviral medicines in preparation for any future flu pandemic

Flu pandemic vaccine considered

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:51:49 +0200

Plans to vaccinate all Isle of Man residents against pandemic flu are being considered.

Bird Flu Survival Guide

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:24:14 +0100

Consider your own preparations as a form of insurance against a possible future pandemic event. Your family is more valuable to you than a house and houses are insured against even less likely events. Read the new Bird Flu Survival Guide!