Copyright 2012 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/birdflu/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241008.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241008.phpResearchers at the University of Southampton, University of Oxford and Retroscreeen Virology Ltd have discovered a series of peptides, found on the internal structures of influenza viruses that could lead to the development of a universal vaccine for influenza, one that gives people immunity against all strains of the disease, including seasonal, avian, and swine flu...Flu / Cold / SARS Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241001.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241001.phpIn response to recent actions of the U.S...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240884.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240884.phpResearchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The findings appear in the journal Science. The scientists showed for the first time how the virus called "Lambda" evolved to find a new way to attack host cells, an innovation that took four mutations to accomplish...Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240840.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240840.phpScientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 (commonly known as bird flu) to be readily transmitted between humans. Two perspectives being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians, raise concerns about if and how this research should be continued, and how the data should be shared for the benefit of public health...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240690.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240690.phpA Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is "laudable...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240572.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240572.php Saturated Fatty Acids Lead to Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Insulin Resistance Excessive levels of certain saturated fatty acids cause mitochondria to fragment, leading to insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, a precursor of type 2 diabetes, according to a paper in the January issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology...Diabetes Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240503.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240503.php On Thursday the Vietnamese authorities reported that a duck farmer has died of bird flu, coinciding with reports that a two-year-old boy in Cambodia has also died of the virus this week. The Vietnamese victim died on 11 January. According to the authorities this was the first human death from avian flu for nearly two years...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240399.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240399.php US scientists propose that flu pandemics follow La Niña weather conditions in the equatorial Pacific. The conditions alter bird migration patterns and this promotes new strains of flu (migrating birds are known to be primary pools of human influenza virus)...Swine Flu Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239865.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239865.php The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) received notification from the Ministry of Health (MoH) on the 30th December concerning a suspected human case of influenza A (H5N1) in Shenzhen. The man has unfortunately died...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239801.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239801.php Authorities in Hong Kong have banned imports of poultry products from certain places in neighbouring Shenzhen, a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, following the death there of a man confirmed as having the deadly form of bird flu known as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239777.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239777.phpResearch on the H5N1 influenza (bird flu) virus' human transmissibility is seriously starting to worry WHO (World Health Organization) experts - in a written statement, the authors express concern about the potential risks linked to this research. The possible negative consequences of some experiments are serious and potentially dangerous...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239510.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239510.phpImagine this, our worst nightmare becomes our reality: as anticipated, the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus that kills most people it infects has acquired the ability to transmit easily from bird to human and then from human to human and has reached pandemic proportions...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239400.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239400.php First Molecular Evidence Links Live Poultry Markets to Human H5N1 Infection in China Sequences of H5N1 virus from live bird markets in China matched sequences from patients who had recently visited the live bird markets, according to a paper in the December 2011 Journal of Virology...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237042.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237042.phpResearchers conducting influenza-like illness surveillance in Cambodia have confirmed a rare incidence of individuals becoming infected with a seasonal influenza and the pandemic strain at the same time, a reminder of the ongoing risk of distinct flu viruses combining in human hosts to produce a more lethal strain, according to a report in the November issue of the American Jou...Flu / Cold / SARS Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/235424.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/235424.phpThe immune response to an H5N1 avian influenza vaccine was greatly enhanced in healthy adults if they were first primed with a DNA vaccine expressing a gene for a key H5N1 protein, researchers say. Their report describes results from two clinical studies conducted by researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/234709.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/234709.phpAn H5 bird flu (avian flu) outbreak in West Bengal, eastern India has triggered the culling of poultry and eggs, authorities have informed. Infected birds have been reported in the Nadia district of West Bengal, according to India's Ministry of Agriculture. A mutant bird flu strain is spreading in other parts of Asia...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/233492.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/233492.phpThe possibility of a major resurgence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 - also known as bird flu - has prompted the United Nation's FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) to advise health authorities around the world to step up surveillance and readiness. There are signs that a mutant strain of Bird Flu is making inroads in Asia and other parts of the world...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/231916.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/231916.phpAvian influenza virus is a threat to the commercial chicken industry and, with its recent rapid spread across China, has also shown the ability for transmission from chickens to humans and other mammals. In an article in Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/231099.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/231099.phpA new University of Maryland-led study finds that 'sex' between the virus responsible for the 2009 flu pandemic (H1N1) and a common type of avian flu virus (H9N2) can produce offspring - new combined flu viruses - with the potential for creating a new influenza pandemic...Flu / Cold / SARS Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/231090.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/231090.phpInovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced today that significant T cell and antibody responses were generated in its Phase I clinical study of VGX-3400X, a SynCon™ DNA vaccine for the prevention of avian H5N1 influenza delivered using intramuscular (IM) electroporation...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/227462.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/227462.phpIn 2005 the bird or avian flu was no joke. Charles Hensley, however, has been arrested for pushing medications in 2005 and marketing the illegal drug Vira 38, not approved by the FDA or in Hong Kong for that matter, which was supposedly able to prevent symptoms of the deadly outbreak that gripped the globe. Hensley has pleaded not guilty...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/221501.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/221501.php The persistence and recurrence of H5N1 avian influenza in endemic regions can largely be blamed on movement and infection by migratory birds. Trade in poultry, poultry products and caged birds, and movement of wild birds also account for H5N1 prevalence in these areas...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/220893.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/220893.phpA farm with a case of Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is being investigated by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Authorities say the poultry in the farm has been quarantined after initial laboratory results were returned. The Department of Agriculture describes the Avian influenza as the low pathogenic virus strain H7N3...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/220187.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/220187.phpWild migratory birds may indeed play a role in the spread of bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1. A study by the U.S...Bird Flu / Avian Flu Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/216262.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/216262.phpIncreasing numbers of domestic livestock and more resource-intensive production methods are encouraging animal epidemics around the world, a problem that is particularly acute in developing countries, where livestock diseases present a growing threat to the food security of already vulnerable populations, according to new assessments reported today at the International Conferen...Water - Air Quality / Agriculture