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Health and Human Services stockpiles 20 million bird flu Vaccines

...t it would be stock piling vaccines to prevent any pandemics of bird flu which is causing great havoc in Asian ...accinate the whole population because historically pandemics come in waves and continue to come in waves,' Pavia said. As flu vaccine production and validation p...

USA’s Plan to Tackle the Bird Flu Pandemi

... a pandemic. Throughout history we have seen flu pandemics but each of them were due to a different strain an...rse from the previous one. There ware recently two pandemics in 1957 and 1968 which killed 70,000 and 34,000 people in US alone. But the scientist reveal the a...

Asian Nations Told To Ready Themselves For Pandemic

...ready for such an event." "Unlike the influenza pandemics of the past, this time the world has been given a warning that one may be on its way. We should use this precious time to be ready to counter-attack and try to stop any sign of a pandemic in its tracks," Omi said. He made the statement on the eve ...

UK Witnesses Lesser Number Of Flu Cases

...to another. The country has witnessed only two flu pandemics since the 1930s. The H5N1 which has already claimed three lives in Turkey is capable of killing as many as 50,000 people in the UK if it mutates into a form which can be transferred from one person to another....

Labs around the World to Join Hands to Detect Bird Flu

...aboratories as a front-line defence against future pandemics will be of great help in eradicating the disease completely....

Young or Old-Who should be first?

...e disease in the first year. The three major flu pandemics have only sent out confusing pictures of who was most likely to be at risk. The report says: "With limited vaccine supply, uncertainty over who will be at highest risk of infection and complications, and questions about which historic pandemic expe...

Banana in grave danger of extinction!

...act that the Cavendish crop has been threatened by pandemics of diseases such as that caused by the black sigatoka fungus, the New Scientist reported in its latest issue. The main hope for survival of the variety lies in developing new hybrids resistant to the fungus, but this is a difficult and time-consum...

Three-Dimensional Image Of AIDS Virus – BY FSU Researcher

...sics at FSU. AIDS has produced one of the worst pandemics ever known. About 25 million people have died and 40 million are infected worldwide –- including 1 million in the United States. Source Eurekalert...

WHO's New Chief Very Optimistic

...ret Chan is very optimistic about dealing with all pandemics currently threatening mankind.// Dr. Chan cites the case of measles to point out that with enough effort and political will anything is possible. WHO reports released last week depict that deaths from measles have been reduced by 60 percent globa...

Less-lethal Strains of Bird Flu Virus may Become the Biggest Killer

...inese University of Hong Kong, said what made past pandemics deadly was not high mortality rates but the effici...devastating death tolls. "All previous influenza pandemics have shown a relatively low mortality (of less than three percent, including the 1918-19 pandemic). ...

Nigeria Donates $10 Million to Global Fund's Fight Against Pandemics

...illion to the Global Fund in the fight against the pandemics of HIV/AIDS, malaria and// tuberculosis. The Pre...nds of the Global Fund Africa, set up to fight the pandemics in Africa, holding in Kigali, Rwanda, on Monday February 12. President Obasanjo said, "If HIV/AIDS...

RNAi Shows Promise in Gene Therapy

...ancisco during a session titled "RNAi for emerging pandemics and biosecurity." RNAi is a biological phenomenon in which a strand of RNA in the cell can cause the destruction of another strand of RNA that is relaying a protein-coding message from a gene. With that protein-coding message removed, the gene's m...

Drug-resistant Form of Plague Identified

...ic between the 14th and 17th centuries. Successive pandemics are estimated to have claimed some 200 million lives. Antibiotics brought the disease under control, but in recent decades the World Health Organization has recorded outbreaks in 125 countries. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1174 suspected c...

Viral Enzyme Recruited in Fight Against Ear Infection

... flu season, and 50 to 95 percent of deaths during pandemics of influenza,” said Jonathan McCullers, M.D., associate member in the Infectious Diseases department at St. Jude. “Eliminating these secondary infections could dramatically reduce the sickness and death rates among susceptible populations such as inf...

Bird Flu Outbreak Expands in Vietnam

...bal flu pandemic in decades. Previous influenza pandemics have killed from 1 million to 40 million people who had no immunity to a new virus strain....

Human Trial for Universal Influenza Vaccine Underway

...ruses known, including the strains that caused the pandemics in the last century. On the basis of the M2-protein they developed a vaccine and successfully tested it on mice and other laboratory animals: the M2 vaccine provided total protection against A strains of flu, without side effects. Furthermore, thi...

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