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Avian Flu Study Finally And Fully Published

After endless toing and froing over whether two studies that demonstrated how bird flu, also known as avian H5N1 influenza, or avian flu, should be published, one of them has appeared in the latest issue of the journal Nature in its entirety. The studi…

Mutated H5N1 Virus Research To Remain Under Wraps For Now, Says WHO

The temporary moratorium on research on lab-modified bird flu (H5N1) viruses is to be extended, and the publication of the studies’ “entire manuscript” is to be delayed. This was the conclusion of a small group of experts who met to discuss the two iss…

Newly Engineered Highly Transmissible H5N1 Strain Ignites Controversy About Balancing Scientific Discovery And Public Safety

Scientists 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 Physici…

Decision Of Researchers To Temporarily Halt Research On H5N1 Applauded By Georgetown Professor

A 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.” In the researchers’ statement, published by Science and …

Bird Flu Kills Duck Farmer In Vietnam And Toddler In Cambodia

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 autho…

Shenzhen Man Dies Of Bird Flu

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. The 39 year old male had …

Hong Kong Bans Poultry After Chinese Man Dies Of Bird Flu

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…

Mutated Bird Flu Research Worries World Health Organization

Research 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…

US Govt Asks Scientists To Keep Lab-Bred Bird Flu Blueprint Secret

Imagine 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 pandem…

News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology

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 D…