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Abaxis, Inc. , a medical products company manufacturing point-of-care blood analysis instruments and rapid tests for the medical, research and veterinary markets, announced today that it has entered the production animal diagnostics marketplace with its first product, a rapid Avian Influenza Antigen Test.
Cases of the H1N1 virus appear to be subsiding locally after a busy period from mid-September through mid-October, TriCounty Health Department Director Joseph Shaffer told listeners at Thursday’s Uintah Basin Regional Council meeting.
Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (SVA), a leading developer and provider of vaccines, announced today that it executed a joint venture (JV) agreement to establish Sinovac (Dalian) Vaccine Technology Co., Ltd. (Sinovac Dalian).
After a lethal bird flu virus emerged in Asia, U.S. officials launched an intense effort to build new defenses against a pandemic, including replacing an antiquated vaccine system, which depends on millions of chicken eggs.
After a lethal bird flu virus emerged in Asia, U.S. officials launched an intense effort to build new defenses against a pandemic, including replacing an antiquated vaccine system, which depends on millions of chicken eggs.
Biotech firm Replikins Ltd., which has analyzed the H1N1 virus' genomic data from the 1918 pandemic through the prediction, outbreak, and progress of the current H1N1 pandemic, today issued its latest biochemical analysis of the virus.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu may crimp Australia’s gross domestic product by 0.5 percent this year and cease to affect the economy in 2010, economists in Melbourne said.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The World Health Organization, facing criticism that it exaggerated the threat of swine flu, said it’s too soon to decide whether the pandemic is more or less deadly than seasonal flu and comparing death rates may be misleading.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The World Health Organization, facing criticism that it exaggerated the threat of swine flu, said it’s too soon to decide whether the pandemic is more or less deadly than seasonal flu and comparing death rates may be misleading.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The World Health Organization, facing criticism that it exaggerated the threat of swine flu, said it’s too soon to decide whether the pandemic is more or less deadly than seasonal flu and comparing death rates may be misleading.
Cases of the H1N1 virus appear to be subsiding locally after a busy period from mid-September through mid-October, TriCounty Health Department Director Joseph Shaffer told listeners at Thursday’s Uintah Basin Regional Council meeting.
After a lethal bird flu virus emerged in Asia, U.S. officials launched an intense effort to build new defenses against a pandemic, including replacing an antiquated vaccine system, which depends on millions of chicken eggs.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The World Health Organization, facing criticism that it exaggerated the threat of swine flu, said it’s too soon to decide whether the pandemic is more or less deadly than seasonal flu and comparing death rates may be misleading.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The World Health Organization, facing criticism that it exaggerated the threat of swine flu, said it’s too soon to decide whether the pandemic is more or less deadly than seasonal flu and comparing death rates may be misleading.
After a lethal bird flu virus emerged in Asia, U.S. officials launched an intense effort to build new defenses against a pandemic, including replacing an antiquated vaccine system, which depends on millions of chicken eggs.
China must be alert to any mutation or changes in the behavior of the H1N1 swine flu virus because the far deadlier H5N1 bird flu virus is endemic in the country, a leading Chinese disease expert said.
