Avian Flu Diary
Covering Pandemic Influenza, H1N1 `Swine Flu', H5N1 `Bird Flu' and other Emerging Infectious Diseases with an emphasis on Individual and Community preparedness.
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Feb 03, 12 12:39PM# 6118 Over the past few months we’ve been witness to a fascinating, volatile, and sometimes unseemly debate over controversial `dual use’ H5N1 research.&n bsp...
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Feb 03, 12 05:53AM# 6117 For those of you who may have missed the fireworks at last night’s New York Academy of Science (NYAS) panel discussion on the benefits and dangers of H5N 1...
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Feb 01, 12 11:05AM
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Feb 01, 12 09:06AM# 6115 Among the many fascinating topics Maryn McKenna covered in her book Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA was the possibility that a vaccine might someday be developed against...
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Feb 01, 12 07:02AM# 6114 With the recent flap over the creation of two highly transmissible laboratory strains of the H5N1 virus, there have been calls to restrict this kind of research to...
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Feb 01, 12 04:33AMPhoto Credit PHIL # 6113 ACIP, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, has published their revised recommendations for adult immunizations today in the Febr uary...
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Feb 01, 12 04:10AM# 6112 Despite few reports of infected wild birds from mainland China (no doubt due to less than robust surveillance and reporting), most years we hear of a dozen or more...
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Jan 31, 12 08:32AM# 6112 About an hour ago a 3-page PDF statement from the NSABB appeared on Science/ AAAS.org’s Public Health, Biosecurity, and H5N1 Forum, providing that co mmittee...
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Jan 31, 12 05:07AMPhoto Credit – FAO # 6111 Virologist Chairul Anwar Nidom of the Institute of Tropical Disease, Airlangga University probably knows more about how the H5N1...
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Jan 30, 12 11:46AMBSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID # 6110 We are now 10 days into the self-imposed 60 day moratorium on the conducting (and publication) of controversial H5N1...
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