Emerging diseases require a global solution
The threat of potential pandemics such as Ebola, SARS, and avian influenza demands a more holistic approach to disease control, one that prevents diseases from crossing the divide between humans, their livestock, and wildlife, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in t...Controlling wildlife trade key to preventing health crises, study says
...a cost-effective means of keeping potential deadly pandemics such as SARS and influenza from occurring. The study appears in the July edition of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. The cost of controlling the spread of diseases afflicting both human and animal populations has reached hundreds of billions...Preventing a pandemic: Study suggests strategies for containing a flu outbreak
...se a massive pandemic. "There were three influenza pandemics in the 20th century alone. The threat of another pandemic, related to avian influenza, is real and very serious. Fortunately, as the new study shows, for the first time in human history, we have a chance of stopping the spread of a new influenza stra...VIB signs cooperation agreement for the development of a new, universal flu vaccine
...ll human virus strains, also those that caused the pandemics in the previous century. As a consequence, people can be vaccinated long before a new pandemic breaks out. This innovative vaccine is currently in a preclinical phase. It is not longer produced by the growth of viruses, but the active component is p...Reconstructed 1918 flu virus providing insights for potential pandemics
...s in order to use this knowledge to predict future pandemics and develop novel vaccines and treatments. Drs. G... not possible to predict which viruses will become pandemics or how virulent a pandemic virus will be. Understanding the Spanish flu, the most virulent and deadl...CU's Torres discusses avian flu and policy
...n as the world possibly faces one of the worst flu pandemics in history. Among the U.S. health officials watching the progress of this extraordinarily active virus (known as H5N1) as it infects chickens in Asia and waterfowl in Russia, is Alfonso Torres, director of the Animal Health Diagnostic Center and asso...Avian flu in perspective: New England Journal article reviews 'spectacular' findings
...bed in the articles were observed during worldwide pandemics of the 20th century. Scientists now conclude that the prospect of a new worldwide pandemic during the 21st century could involve either of two possibilities: A direct spread of an entirely avian virus from birds to humans. This is what happened du...'Bird flu' infections in humans prompt new investigation at Saint Louis University
... million people died in a flu pandemic. Three such pandemics have occurred during the last 100 years. When a new strain of flu infects people, the infection can spread around the world quickly. This is what could potentially happen with some new human flu viruses that come from bird flu viruses. "Recently, som...Bird flu poses threat to international security, Illinois scholar says
...nce on international collaboration on planning for pandemics at Wilton Park, Steyning, West Sussex.......). The worldwide spread of disease - particularly, pandemics with disastrous consequences for human health and ...short time periods. Thus we can expect that future pandemics will spread according to other rules, and more quickly. The rapid worldwide spread of SARS (severe a...FSU research produces images of AIDS virus that may shape vaccine
...physics 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....Scientists find mutations that let bird flu adapt to humans
...hold to become a human pathogen. The last two flu pandemics in 1957 and 1968 were caused by avian viruses that had accumulated enough genetic mutations to be considered hybrids of animal and human viruses, Kawaoka notes....Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million
...demic. Although many people might still recall the pandemics of 1968 and 1957, it is the infamous 1918-1920 pandemic--and the possibility of a recurrence on that scale--that causes the most trepidation. Strangely, researchers still don't know exactly how many people died from this particular strain of the...Low-pathogenic forms of bird flu do cause illness among birds
...ld virus-types always formed the origin of massive pandemics such as the Spanish Flu. Only such viruses that are non-lethal to birds can be spread easily by (wild or captive) birds, simply because the birds stay alive." Only after mixing with human flu can such a low-pathogenic avian flu cause the nightmare of...Whiteflies and plant viruses can help each other to speed up biological invasion
...eaks of the B whitefly have often been followed by pandemics of a group of plant viruses called begomoviruses o... indigenous whiteflies, as well as causing disease pandemics of the viruses associated with this vector." The study also shows that infection of the whiteflies...Changes in amino acids in the 1918 influenza virus cut transmission
...uce the risk for a potential pandemic. While flu pandemics occur every 10 to 40 years, the factors that lead ...mission, and therefore, help to stop epidemics and pandemics of influenza."...2,000 influenza virus genomes now completed and publicly accessible
...asily transmitted from person to person. Influenza pandemics have occurred three times in the last century, the most lethal of which was the pandemic of 1918, which caused an estimated 40 to 50 million deaths worldwide. "A few years ago, only limited genetic information on influenza viruses existed in the pu...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
...5.5). travel restrictions slow, but do not stop, pandemics (P22.4) cold fusion (sessions A31 and B31) MRI imaging with 90-nm resolution, 60,000 times better than conventional MRI (A19.3) new negative refraction structures - the grism (grating-prism) and grating lens (X38.2) submicron neutron radiogra...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...NIH establishes Center of Excellence for influenza research at Mount Sinai
...s in order to use this knowledge to predict future pandemics and develop novel vaccines and treatments. In 2005, researchers reconstructed the 1918 flu virus using reverse genetics, a technique developed by Dr. Garca-Sastre and Dr. Palese, Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at Mount Sinai. In 2006, re...