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Vaccine project shelved over production costs

(Times of India) PUNE: An ambitious plan to indigenously develop a vaccine against the deadly Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) had to be shelved because the pharmaceutical companies did not find large-scale production of the vaccine economically viable. Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) had developed a candidate vaccine against the virus. But it had  Read More »

Human Exposures to Marine Brucella Isolated from a Harbor Porpoise

(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) On February 10, 2012, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) was notified of a positive Brucella culture from a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) found on the coast of southern Maine. Maine CDC, in consultation with CDC, initiated an investigation of potential occupational exposures of staff  Read More »

Protection for science and security

(Washington Post) THE INFLUENZA A virus known as H5N1 is found mostly in birds. Yet humans can get it, too. Since 2003, there have been more than 600 confirmed cases, in which about 60 percent of the victims have died. So far, the strain has not spread between humans. But last year, a pair of  Read More »

Bird flu virus droplet studies reveal pandemic clues

(CBC) Bird flu virus experiments on how it could spread by respiratory droplets and trigger a pandemic have been published amid controversy over biosecurity and censorship concerns surrounding the research. Scientists are watching how the H5N1 avian flu virus evolves closely both in nature and in laboratories because of its pandemic potential. Thursday’s online issue  Read More »

Influenza: Five questions on H5N1

(Nature) The biology of the H5N1 avian influenza virus is rife with paradoxes. The virus is widespread, but hard to detect. It kills more than half of the people known to be infected, but thousands of those exposed have no apparent problems. It seems to be just a few mutations away from gaining the ability  Read More »

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