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EurekAlert! - Sun Dec 6, 1:21 pm ET
( American Society for Cell Biology ) A massive, data-crunching computer search program that matches fragments of potential drug molecules to the known shapes of viral surface proteins has identified several FDA-approved drugs that could be the basis for new medicines -- if emerging viruses such as the H5N1 (avian flu) or H1N1/09 (swine flu) develop resistance to current antiviral therapies.
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Science News - Wed Dec 9, 10:53 am ET
Computer screening reveals possible drugs the H1N1 and H5N1 flu viruses just wouldn’t be able to resist
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Science News - Tue Dec 8, 3:23 pm ET
Computer screening reveals possible drugs the H1N1 and H5N1 flu viruses just wouldn’t be able to resist
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 8:09 am ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Flu vaccine shortages in developing nations may destabilize global security should the H1N1 virus become more deadly, said David Heymann , a former deputy head of the World Health Organization.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 12:49 am ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A fresh wave of bird flu outbreaks in Egypt, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand highlights the threat to public health caused by the H5N1 virus, which risks swapping genes with other influenza strains to spawn new variants, the World Health Organization in Manila said in a statement today.
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Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 6:35 am ET
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.
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Vernal Express - Wed Dec 2, 6:45 pm ET
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.
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OfficialWire - Wed Nov 18, 5:42 am ET
U.S. researchers linked several powerful computer systems to analyze enormous amounts of genetic data on the H5N1 virus, also known as avian flu.
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PharmaceuticalOnline - Mon Nov 30, 1:23 am ET
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).
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Washington Post - Tue Nov 24, 12:00 am ET
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.
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Washington Post - Tue Nov 24, 12:00 am ET
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.
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Omaha World-Herald - Mon Nov 23, 10:42 pm ET
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.
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Nov 25, 6:04 pm ET
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.
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redOrbit - Mon Nov 16, 1:08 pm ET
New methods of studying avian influenza strains and visually mapping their movement around the world will help scientists more quickly learn the behavior of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus, Ohio State University researchers say.The researchers linked many powerful computer systems together to analyze enormous amounts of genetic data collected from all publicly available isolated strains of the H5N1 ...
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Washington Post - Tue Nov 24, 12:00 am ET
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.
