Synchrotron could help save the Tassie devil
... to the fight to save the Tasmanian devil from the outbreak of facial tumour disease currently decimating devil populations, according to Dr Jeff Church from CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology in Geelong. Dr Church says he will use the synchrotron to see if the disease causes any biochemical changes in the ...Detecting transmissibility of avian influenza virus in human households
...f direct human-to-human transmission in a previous outbreak of a highly pathogenic H7N7 avian influenza virus in the Netherlands. There is evidence to show that secondary human-to-human transmission is indeed a plausible explanation for the Dutch infection data. Based on the estimates of the within-househol...'Sundried tide' -- silent, natural disaster
...rrier Reef . At first we thought it was a major outbreak of disease," Dr Kerswell said. "We collected samples and took hundreds of photos and sent a series off to colleagues to be analysed. The response was that it was not a disease, but something else. [So] we looked back through hourly records of t...Canadian paper innovation holds promise for improved global health safety
...agues back in 2004, inspired partially by the SARS outbreak that killed 44 Canadians and hundreds globally, and the anthrax scare in the United States. "What bioactive paper will offer are immediacy, portability and low-cost in detecting and repelling or deactivating harmful pathogens," explains Pelton. "R...Computer model maps efficient inoculation of hospital staff in pandemic outbreak
...reparedness for a bioterrorism attack or influenza outbreak has been the focus of much interest and effort in recent years. Now, public health experts at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have developed a strategy for how hospitals can most efficiently inoculate their own staff with m...Landmark study details demographic, ecological and genetic spread of rabies in raccoon outbreak
...ng 30 years of data detailing a large rabies virus outbreak among North American raccoons, researchers at Emor...a were methodically collected and stored since the outbreak began in the mid-1970s. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had been s...Getting to the core of an emergent public health threat
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 200...ed, and weakened most with pneumonia. "The SARS outbreak was a strong reminder that new viruses can emerge, and whether new or old, pathogens can cause not o...Spreading viruses as we breathe
...e Australian Research Council, was motivated by an outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong where more than 300 people were infected within the space of a few hours. "We wanted to know how this virus was able to travel from building to building in such a short time," she said. Professor Morawska said her research ha...Vaccine prevents prion disease in mice
... he said. "But if, for example, a more significant outbreak of chronic wasting disease in deer and elk occurs and if it were transmissible to humans, then we would need a vaccine like this to protect people in hunting areas." He also noted that a vaccine that decreases the spread of prion disease in animal...Peramivir protects mice from lethal H5N1 infection
...ld also be given as a preventive measure during an outbreak to decrease the risk of infection," he said. Boltz is first author of a paper, which was presented April 30 at the 20th International Conference on Antiviral Research in Palm Springs, Calif. "We were surprised to see a 40 percent survival rate amon...'Supermap' of avian flu yields new info on source/spread
...y information that may help predict where the next outbreak of the virus is likely to occur. In the process, they also tested hypotheses about the nature of specific strains of the virus that appear to be heading westward and have the ability to infect humans. A team of biomedical experts, led by Daniel...Smallpox outbreak: How long would it take for vaccines to protect people? Would it work?
ST. LOUIS -- In the event of a smallpox outbreak in the United States, how long would it take for a vaccinSLU scientist leads national studye to start protecting Americans by stimulating an immune response? A new national study led by Saint Louis University School of Medicine will attempt to ans...Researchers create interactive map with Google technology to track avian flu spread
...9 cases of the disease in humans since the initial outbreak in 1996, including 164 deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, an avian flu pandemic could infect 15 percent to 35 percent of the United States population and cost well over $100 billion....Map predicting spread of avian flu
...er and colleagues have examined the data from this outbreak and produced a model which can predict the probabi...nfectious diseases such as the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK. The method can estimate the key parameters which determine the spread of highly transmiss...Ebola outbreaks killing thousands of gorillas and chimpanzees
...rge ape die-offs first surfaced in the late 1990s, outbreak amplification was assumed to be through "massive s...en ape social groups plays a central role in Ebola outbreak amplification. The study has important implications for controlling the impact of Ebola, which has k...UC Davis wins new national center for avian flu research
...to help itreduce the chances of a deadly influenza outbreak around the world,as well as reduce the effects of common, "seasonal" strains ofinfluenza. Walter Boyce, a research veterinarian and director of the UC DavisWildlife Health Center, will lead the UC Davis branch of CRISAR.Boyce and Scott Layne of UCL...St. Jude named a Center of Excellence in flu research
... the institution in 1999, two years after the 1997 outbreak of H5N1 in Hong Kong. That program established surveillance in aquatic birds and in live bird markets in Hong Kong and supported the study of the natural history of influenza viruses that have the potential to cause a pandemic. The St. Jude team also...Migratory birds: Innocent scapegoats for the dispersal of the H5N1 virus
...spersal of the virus to date. The occurrence of an outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in Suffolk, England, in February 2007 fits this wider pattern. Wild birds, particularly waterfowl, are a key element of the viral ecology of low pathogenic avian influenza. Very high densities of domestic animals and in...American Society for Microbiology to host 107th General Meeting in Toronto
...oduce and a possible source of the E. coli spinach outbreak The interface of science and art: microbial degradation of cultural heritage materials The keynote lecture will feature Edward O. Wilson of Harvard University. Considered by many to be the father of the modern environmental movement, Wilson will...