Infection Control Today - H5N1 Influenza

IDRI and Medicago to Present Data on H5N1 Vaccine at the World Vaccine Congress

The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), a Seattle-based non-profit research organization that is a leading developer of adjuvants used in vaccines combating infectious disease, and Medicago Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective ...More

April 9, 2013

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Avian Flu Mutation Study Offers Vaccine Clue

Scientists have described small genetic changes that enable the H5N1 bird flu virus to replicate more easily in the noses of mammals. So far there have only been isolated cases of bird flu in humans, and no widespread transmission as the H5N1 virus can't replicate ...More

April 8, 2013

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Mutation Altering Stability of Surface Molecule in Acid Enables H5N1 Infection of Mammals

A single mutation in the H5N1 avian influenza virus that affects the pH at which the hemagglutinin surface protein is activated simultaneously reduces its capacity to infect ducks and enhances its capacity to grow in mice according to research published ahead of print today ...More

February 28, 2013

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Cross-Reactive Antibodies Vanquish H5N1 in Preclinical Study

The H5N1 influenza has proven extraordinarily deadly. More than 50 percent of the 500 cases that have been documented since the virus first emerged in 1997 have been fatal. Thus, H5N1 is viewed as a serious threat to world public health. A major difficulty in developing ...More

March 20, 2012

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New H5N1 Viruses: How to Balance Risk of Escape with Benefits of Research?

In the controversy surrounding the newly developed strains of avian H5N1 flu viruses, scientists and policy makers are struggling with one question in particular: what level of biosafety is best for studying these potentially lethal strains of influenza? In a pair of ...More

March 6, 2012

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Expert Says H5N1 Flu is Just as Dangerous as Feared, Requires Action

The debate about the potential severity of an outbreak of airborne H5N1 influenza in humans needs to move on from speculation and focus instead on how we can safely continue H5N1 research and share the results among researchers, according to a commentary to be published in ...More

February 23, 2012

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Public Health, Flu Experts Agree H5N1 Research is Critical, but Extend Delay

A small group of global public health and influenza experts at a WHO-convened meeting reached consensus on two urgent issues related to the newly created H5N1 influenza viruses: extending the temporary moratorium on research with new laboratory-modified H5N1 viruses and ...More

February 20, 2012

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Professor Applauds Decision of Researchers to Temporarily Halt Research on H5N1

A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is “laudable.” In the researchers’ statement, published today by Science and Nature, the ...More

January 23, 2012

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H5N1 Virus Targets Pulmonary Endothelial Cells

The H5N1 virus has killed roughly 60 percent of humans infected, a mortality rate which is orders of magnitude higher than that of seasonal influenza virus. Many victims of the former fall heir to acute respiratory distress syndrome—the inability to breathe. Now researchers ...More

January 19, 2012

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First Molecular Evidence Links Live Poultry Markets to Human H5N1 Infection in China

Sequences of H5N1 virus from live bird markets in China matched sequences from patients who had recently visited the live bird markets, according to a paper in the December 2011 Journal of Virology. Live poultry markets have long been suspected of providing the reservoir of ...More

December 15, 2011

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