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EGYPT: Anti-bird flu campaign planned

(IRIN) A nationwide campaign to stop the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in Egypt is to be launched by the government in a few weeks, say officials, but details are still sketchy. The new plan, which will involve coordination …

January 27, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Middle East, and Public Health
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Call for vigilance after H5N1 found in goose

(Hong Kong Standard) A dead goose found at Sham Tseng has tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus. The decomposed carcass was found at Anglers’ Beach on Castle Peak Road last Friday and required a series of tests before the positive result was confirmed yesterday, …

January 27, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific and Public Health
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RI to produce bird-flu vaccine by 2013

(Jakarta Post) Indonesia is aiming to manufacture its first, locally produced vaccine to combat the H5N1 avian influenza virus by 2013, with state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Biofarma working to prepare its facilities for developing the vaccine for mass production, a minister says. Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih said that Biofarma was currently working on an Read More »

January 27, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Newly engineered highly transmissible H5N1 strain ignites controversy about balancing scientific discovery and public safety

(American College of Physicians) Below is information about two articles being published early online www.annals.org, the Annals of Internal Medicine website. The information is not intended to substitute for the full articles as sources of information. Full text will be posted at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26. Annals of Internal Medicine attribution is required Read More »

January 27, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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NEIDL Goes Public

(BU Today) Murphy, a School of Medicine professor of medicine and microbiology, researches the ways that bacterial protein toxins get into cells. Corley, a MED professor and chair of microbiology, investigates immune responses to viruses. But much of their time recently has been spent leading visitors through the many chambers of the National Emerging Infectious Read More »