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Is Smallpox Threat Real ?

...ealth said Friday. Health officials are working to stockpile vaccines and prepare local officials for a potential attack....

Shortage of MMR vaccine

...pplement production by taking 700,000 doses from a stockpile of 3.1 million doses....

Health and Human Services stockpiles 20 million bird flu Vaccines

...America (IDSA) is happy about federals decision to stockpile vaccines and drugs for prevention of bird flu pand...equired to immunize 40 million people so ideally a stockpile of 100 million vaccine vials is required. 'Ultimately you would want to be able to vaccinate the who...

Flu-Drugs Are Causing Resistance Across The World

...lications for agencies and governments planning to stockpile these drugs for epidemic and pandemic strains of influenza. With the increasing rates of resistance shown there, amantadine and rimantadine will probably no longer be effective for treatment or prophylaxis in the event of a pandemic outbreak o...

Drug companies in India keen on developing bird flu drug

... would enable domestic drug //firms to produce and stockpile Swiss drug maker Roche’s patented drug Tamiflu, useful in combating the global threat against the most dreaded avian flu virus. Section 92 empowers the government to issue CL without receipt of an application from the industry. Furthermore, the iss...

Chiron Corporation Gets US Contract To Produce Bird Flu Vaccines

... would address a shortfall in the nation's vaccine stockpile and said, 'The hard truth is that capacity doesn't exist within the United States to produce vaccines of sufficient speed and in sufficient quantity to reach every American.' Chiron corporation is to produce flu vaccine from the inactivated flu stra...

Cipla In India Can Manufacture Drug For Bird Flu

...lready got in touch with Glaxo and are planning to stockpile the drug,’’ said Dr Ashwani Kumar, Drug Controller General of India. India has already ordered one hundred thousand doses of Tamiflu from Roche to combat any emergency outbreak of bird flu. Medindia Related Links: Tamiflu Shortage Can Be Better...

Roche confirms Tamiflu production talks in US

...Inc., is in short supply. Countries are seeking to stockpile it but all are many million doses short of what would be needed to treat a pandemic of any sort of influenza, if there is one. Last month Roche said Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines were free to begin making their own versions of the drug be...

Detection of Weak strains of bird flu virus – Target of European Unio

...ontact with poultry. It has also been planned to stockpile drugs to effectively manage such an emergency situation. According to the World Health Organization, low pathogenic avian influenza can escape detection and spread easily as it is less likely to kill the host (poultry). Although such strains do not p...

Christmas trees to yield key Tamiflu ingredient

...eting demand, with various countries clamouring to stockpile the drug. Biolyse specializes in extracting chemicals from plants and biomaterials at its plant in St. Catharines, Ontario. Now makes a generic version of the cancer drug paclitaxel from yew trees. “Our research has shown that 2-to-3 per cent of th...

Melbourne at cutting edge of fight to find bird flu vaccine

...ntiviral Relenza last month to add to the national stockpile in preparation for a pandemic....

Bird Flu Threat Prompts Stockpiling Of Food And Medicine In America

It has been urged by the Federal Government to stockpile medicines and food owing to the possibility of potential bird flu pandemic in America.// A pandemic is said to occur when a new strain of the influenza virus gets transmitted from one person to the other, thereby causing serious human illness. Warn...

Countries Step up Battle Against Bird Flu

...being culled worldwide and countries scrambling to stockpile the anti-viral drug, the bank has cautioned that its analysis was only an initial estimate, as it was impossible to anticipate when a pandemic may occur, or how severe it could be. It had developed the cost estimate with guidance from lead agencies s...

Supercomputers To Assist In Thwarting Bird Flu Epidemic In Future

... on the present work . . . we believe that a large stockpile of avian influenza-based vaccine containing potential pandemic influenza antigens, coupled with the capacity to rapidly make a better-matched vaccine based on human strains, would be the best strategy to mitigate pandemic influenza,” say the authors,...

Ginger Offers Hope In Ovarian Cancer Fight

...hat people should dash down to the supermarket and stockpile ginger. We still don't know whether ginger, in any form, can prevent or treat cancers in animals or people,' warned Henry Scowcroft, of Cancer Research UK....

Joint Effort among Various Nations to Tackle Bird Flu

...he Swiss company said that it would store half the stockpile in Switzerland and half in the US, for the WHO to use as a fire blanket to contain any pandemic in the area where it starts. ...

Australian Businesses Prepare for Outbreak of Bird Flu

...vian flu outbreak has caused Australian businesses stockpile anti-viral drugs and face masks. // Pandemic ris...uired to spend several millions if they decided to stockpile enough face masks and other protective gear to protect staff for three months....

Vaccine Made from Live bird flu virus vaccine Offers Protection to Animals

...ection//, and could probably be the solution to to stockpile vaccines ahead of a pandemic. They said tests on people were already underway, and this could lead to the start of a repository of vaccines against various potential strains of pandemic influenza. The researchers wrote in the online journal Pub...

US Citizens Told To Stockpile For Bird Flu Outbreak

...Hong Kong have been advised to build a three-month stockpile of food, medicine and water in their homes// in case of a bird flu pandemic, a news report said Tuesday. An advisory has been sent out to all 60,000 registered US citizens in the former British colony urging them to prepare the stockpiles ahead of ...

US Orders More H5N1 vaccine

...on doses. According to HHS the existing national stockpile of pre-pandemic vaccine is only sufficient to vacc...lion people with two 90-mcg doses each. And of the stockpile of 7.3 million doses, around 1.4 million doses have begun to lose potency, leaving 5.9 million doses...

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