September 24, 2008

DigitalJournal.com Monoclonal antibodies, a new take on an old therapy DigitalJournal.com - Toronto,Ontario,Canada Others have done the same for survivors of the H5N1 avian flu. Harvesting antibodies is one thing, reproducing them is quite another. ... See all stories on this topic

Cornell Prepares For Pandemic Flu Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun - Ithaca,NY,USA The alert period means that there are humans that have contracted the avian flu virus known as H5N1. There have been at least 383 people who have contracted ... See all stories on this topic

India Bans Imports of Livestock, Products to Check Bird Flu Bloomberg - USA The H5N1 flu strain is known to have infected 385 people in 15 nations since 2003, according to the World health Organization. India killed millions of fowl ... See all stories on this topic

Bird flu cases down, but pandemic looms Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia Erna Tresnaningsih, the Health Ministry's director for animal-vector diseases, said the confirmed number of humans infected by the H5N1 virus in Indonesia ... See all stories on this topic

Novartis Says Experimental Vaccine Protects Against Avian Flu FDA news (subscription) - Falls Church,VA,USA “The immune response was broadly cross-reactive and covered all H5N1 clades known to date,” the company adds. “Responses were seen even against viral ... See all stories on this topic

Role of viral hemagglutinin glycosylation in anti-influenza ... 7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA Regardless of source, SP-Ds had strong activity against many recent strains of influenza A and B virus from humans; however, H5N1 strains were resistant. ... See all stories on this topic

...compiled by Rex Regeborg