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Monitoring For 'Pandemic' Mutations By Examining Bird Flu Infections
01 September 2008
Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust are to examine what is preventing the H5N1 avian influenza virus from causing a human pandemic and what mutations are required to realise its deadly potential...
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Discovery Offers Potential For Drugs To Fight Bird Flu, Other Influenza Epidemics
27 August 2008
Researchers at Rutgers University and The University of Texas at Austin have reported a discovery that could help scientists develop drugs to fight the much-feared bird flu and other virulent strains of influenza...
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Pitt Scientists Receive $3.6 Million To Test Vaccine Against Deadliest Strain Of Avian Flu
27 August 2008
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research have been awarded $3.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to conduct animal studies of vaccines designed to protect against the most common...
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