Bird Flu Leads to Ban on Arkansas Poultry
Arkansas poultry has been banned in Russia, Japan and Hong Kong — and in Mississippi and Georgia — after bird flu was discovered last week at a Scott County farm, a state official said Wednesday (June 26). In addition to those places banning the sale …
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H7N9 flu peril lies in deep lung infiltration: study
PARIS (AFP) – The H7N9 bird flu virus is a peril for humans because it replicates deep in the lungs where it can trigger a dangerous response from the immune system, a study said Wednesday. In addition, no one is likely to have pre-existing immunity to …
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BioCryst's failed flu drug gets another shot at FDA success
Last fall BioCryst ($ BCRX) took a careful look at the interim data from a late-stage study of its flu drug peramivir i.v. and prepared to read the last rites for the program after years of federally-funded research work. The company gave up on …
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How Google Flu Trends Is Getting to the Bottom of Messy Data
Churning through, tabulating, and modeling millions of search queries every day, Google Flu Trends can measure, a full two weeks before the CDC, the incidence of influenza-like illnesses (ILI) across the U.S. Any official response to a flu pandemic …
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Pandemic Risk? Troubling Traits of H7N9 Avian Flu Virus
July 10, 2013 — The emerging H7N9 avian influenza virus responsible for at least 37 deaths in China has qualities that could potentially spark a global outbreak of flu, according to a new study published July 10, 2013 in the journal Nature.
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Flu Eradication Device
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Build your own flu eradication device with these common household items
