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INFLUENZA >> 

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Avian Influenza  
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Latest News  

Feb 10
New Item NEWS SCAN: Narrow focus for WHO H5N1 meeting, pandemic impact in Europe, pandemic vaccine safety, vaccine-linked narcolepsy, polio vaccine fears in Japan

Feb 9
New Item Undetected H5N1 cases seem few, but questions persist

New Item FLU NEWS SCAN: Procrastination on research oversight, pandemic ethics, H5N1 in Vietnam

Feb 8
New Item Experts: Dual-use H5N1 studies may not hasten pandemic response

New Item FLU NEWS SCAN: WHO dual-use meeting, H5N1 death in Vietnam, CDC's antiviral advice

Feb 7
New Item FLU NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in India, avian flu and migration, spring vs fall H1N1 wave, school closure and H1N1

Feb 6
New Item Nepal, Vietnam, and India find more H5N1 in poultry

Feb 3
New Item Live debate airs major divisions in H5N1 research battle

Feb 1
New Item FLU NEWS SCAN: H5N1 death in Vietnam, H5N1 research advisory

Jan 31
New Item NSABB: Studies show how H5N1 can jump natural barrier

New Item Experts continue to clash over NSABB recommendation

Jan 30
New Item Battle over H5N1 research continues in media, journals

Jan 27
New Item NEWS SCAN: H5N1 invasion of CNS, low-path H5 in Australia, viral co-evolution, E coli O104 in Turkey

Jan 26
New Item NEWS SCAN: H5N1 efforts in Egypt, H5N1 vaccine in Indonesia, non-drug flu interventions, Gates' Global Fund donation

Jan 25
New Item Virus in one controversial H5N1 study wasn't lethal

Jan 23
New Item Experts debate aspects of H5N1 transmission studies

New Item China reports another H5N1 death

New Item NEWS SCAN: WHO meeting on H5N1 studies, H1N1 surge in Mexico, E coli research, MRSA in pork

Jan 20
New Item Researchers announce pause in controversial H5N1 studies

New Item US virologists ask NSABB to reconsider H5N1 decision

Jan 19
New Item Three countries report H5N1 cases, deaths

Jan 18
New Item NEWS SCAN: H5N1 death, filovirus vaccine contract, cheap anti-malarial production, Taliban clears polio vaccination

Jan 17
New Item WHO to lead talks on controversial H5N1 studies

New Item NEWS SCAN: H5N1 case in Cambodia, H5N1 outbreaks in Bangladesh, H1N1 mutations, measles in Europe

Jan 12
New Item FLU NEWS SCAN: Avian flu alert level in Hong Kong, adult vaccination, pneumonia and flu

Jan 11
New Item NEWS SCAN: Dual-use research, H1N1 burden, pathogens in imported wildlife, funds for Pandemrix narcolepsy patients, H5N1 in Pakistan

Jan 10
New Item FLU NEWS SCAN: H5N1 death in Indonesia, flu vaccine market

Jan 9
New Item NEWS SCAN: NY Times critiques H5N1 studies, H5N1 in India, totally drug-resistant TB, flu and cancer

Jan 6
New Item NEWS SCAN: Avian flu in Bhutan, anthrax cases in Serbia, E coli from livestock, counterterrorism bureau

Jan 5
New Item WHO confirms H5N1 deaths in Egypt and China

Jan 3
New Item NEWS SCAN: H5N1 death in China, H5 in more Hong Kong birds, steroids for H1N1, Campylobacter risk factors

Dec 23
New Item Fears about mutant H5N1 hinge on ferrets as flu model

Dec 22
New Item NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in Bangladesh, vaccine ethics, defining vaccine failure

      
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New Item The 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus induces anti-neuraminidase (NA) antibodies that cross-react with the NA of H5N1 viruses in ferrets
From Vaccine, published online Feb 11

 
New Item Facing up to flu
Editorial from Feb 9 Nature

 
New Item Eco-virological approach for assessing the role of wild birds in the spread of avian influenza H5N1 along the central Asian flyway
From Feb 7 PLoS ONE

 
New Item Presence of avian influenza viruses in waterfowl and wetlands during summer 2010 in California: are resident birds a potential reservoir?
From Feb 6 PLoS ONE

 
New Item Efficiently transmissible engineered influenza A H5N1 viruses
PHAC biosafety advisory published Feb 1

 
New Item Avian influenza virus hemagglutinins H2, H4, H8, and H14 support a highly pathogenic phenotype
From Proc Natl Acad Sci, published online Jan 30

 
New Item Adaptations of avian flu virus are a cause for concern
NSABB Jan 31 statement in Nature (also published in Science)

 
New Item H5N1: Flu transmission work is urgent
Commentary from Nature, published online Jan 25

 
New Item H5N1 influenza viruses: facts, not fear
Commentary from Proc Natl Acad Sci, published online Jan 25

 
New Item Impact of education and network for avian influenza H5N1 in human: knowledge, clinical practice, and motivation on medical providers in Vietnam
From Jan 23 PLoS ONE

 
New Item Life sciences at a crossroads: respiratory transmissible H5N1
Commentary in Science, published online Jan 19

 
New Item Restricted data on influenza H5N1 virus transmission
Commentary in Science, published online Jan 19

 
New Item H5N1 debates: hung up on the wrong questions
Commentary in Science, published online Jan 19

 
New Item The limits of government regulation of science
Commentary in Science, published online Jan 19

 
New Item A human antibody recognizing a conserved epitope of H5 hemagglutinin broadly neutralizes highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses
From J Virol, published online Jan 11

 
New Item Avian influenza H5N1 transmission in households, Indonesia
From Jan 4 PLoS ONE

 
New Item WHO concerned that new H5N1 influenza research could undermine the 2011 pandemic influenza preparedness framework
Statement released Dec 30, 2011

 
New Item Efficacy of a heterologous vaccine and adjuvant in ferrets challenged with influenza virus H5N1
From Influenza Other Respi Viruses, published online Dec 22, 2011

 
New Item H4N8 subtype avian influenza virus isolated from shorebirds contains a unique PB1 gene and causes severe respiratory disease in mice
From Virology, published online Dec 20, 2011

 
New Item Safety and immunogenicity of an MF59-adjuvanted A/H5N1 pre-pandemic influenza vaccine in adults and the elderly
From Vaccine, published online Dec 20, 2011

 
New Item Press statement on the NSABB review of H5N1 research
From NIH, released Dec 20, 2011

 
New Item Editor-in-Chief Bruce Alberts on publication of H5N1 avian influenza research
Response from Science to above statement, posted Dec 20, 2011

 
New Item Journalists' views about reporting avian influenza and a potential pandemic: a qualitative study
From Influenza Other Respi Viruses, published online Dec 17, 2011

 
New Item The risk of engineering a highly transmissible H5N1 virus
Editorial from Biosecur Bioterror, published online Dec 16, 2011