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Three Women Die of Swine Flu in Mumbai

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Three women die of swine flu in Mumbai Mumbai, Jun 24 (PTI) Three women, including a pregnant woman, died due to swine flu here, taking the death toll of the H1N1 influenza to six since June 1 in Mumbai hospitals, officials said. Read more on Press Trust of India Tags: death, press trust of india, [...]

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Emily Post Relative Offers Flu Etiquette UPI.com

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Emily Post relative offers flu etiquetteUPI.cominfluenza education campaign, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases is partnering with the Emily Post Institute to remind Americans to contain the flu. "While people recognize that the flu virus spreads easily, they admit to tossing proper ...Don't Be "That Guy": Remember Flu EtiquetteMarketWatch (press release) all 9 news articles& [...]

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Stop the Spread Malaysia Star

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Malaysia Star Stop the spreadMalaysia StarInfluenza is a threat to children throughout the year. Understand its dangers and how you can prevent it. INFLUENZA virus infection, sometimes called “the flu”, is a highly contagious viral infection that causes generalised ... Read the full story: Stop the spread - Malaysia Star Tags: Stop, spread malaysia star, [...]

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The Wistar Institute Welcomes Immunologist Scott Hensley

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The Wistar Institute Welcomes Immunologist Scott Hensley Scott Hensley, Ph.D., an expert on seasonal influenza, has been appointed assistant professor in The Wistar Institute's Immunology Program. Hensley comes to Wistar from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. Read more on Newswise Tags: assistant, Wistar, expert, wistar institute, [...]

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Benefits of H5N1 Research Do Not Outweigh the Risks Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Benefits of H5N1 research do not outweigh the risksMilwaukee Journal SentinelBy Thomas Inglesby, Anita Cicero and DA Henderson Over the past eight years, the H5N1 avian influenza has sickened 571 people, killing 59% of them. To give some perspective, the fatality rate of the virus that caused the 1918 Great Pandemic was 2%, ...Cambodia finds [...]

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Quarantine Right Thing to Do to Contain Adenovirus Says Don Malay Mail

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Quarantine right thing to do to contain Adenovirus, says donMalay MailKUALA LUMPUR: Influenza-like-illness (ILI) has a clinical presentation similar to influenza but it's not necessarily due to the flu. That's the opinion of Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) academician on the ILI "Adenovirus" outbreak currently ... and more& » Read the full story: Quarantine right [...]

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Centre Stresses Importance of Preventative Vaccination Irish Medical Times

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Irish Medical Times Centre stresses importance of preventative vaccinationIrish Medical TimesShe said the lack or failure to vaccinate had been apparent in influenza, measles and mumps. At the start of 2010, the HPSC witnessed the last remnants of the first influenza pandemic this century, and a moderately severe influenza season occurred at ... and more& [...]

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Computer-Aided Influenza Virus Vaccine Method Could Lead to Effective and Safe Seasonal Vaccines

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Computer-Aided Influenza Virus Vaccine Method Could Lead To Effective And Safe Seasonal Vaccines (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of molecular biologists and computer scientists at Stony Brook University have used a novel method to weaken (attenuate) influenza virus by way of designing hundreds of mutations to its genetic code to create an effective vaccine. Read more [...]

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Colby Pharmaceutical Company Announces Publication of JVRS100 Use as Potent ... MarketWatch Press Release

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Colby Pharmaceutical Company Announces Publication of JVRS-100 use as Potent ...MarketWatch (press release)JVRS-100 significantly enhanced influenza-specific antibody and T-cell immune responses, increased efficacy at lower influenza antigen doses, and enabled cross-clade influenza virus protection. Remarkably, the influenza antibody response and efficacy ... and more& » Read the full story: Colby Pharmaceutical Company Announces Publication of [...]

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Hightlight: Influenza Virus Gaining Power in Pigs?

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Hightlight: Influenza virus gaining power in pigs? The June 18 issue of Science reports that by monitoring the swine at a Hong Kong slaughterhouse, researchers have found that the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus from 2009 has been reorganizing its genes in pigs for the past year and a half. Read more on PhysOrg Tags: slaughterhouse, [...]

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Avian Influenza Continues to Spread Examiner.com

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Avian influenza continues to spreadExaminer.comIn total, 22 cases of avian flu have been reported across Japan as the infection continues to spread. 33000 chickens were culled today in the Miyazaki Prefecture, bringing the total chickens culled to around 990000 birds since the first infection was ... Read the full story: Avian influenza continues to spread [...]

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DUI Driving Under Influenza ZDNet Blog

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DUI: Driving Under Influenza?ZDNet (blog)Although there's no hard data on exactly how many accidents per year are caused while driving under the influence of influenza or cold, the number is estimated to be high. Considering that there are also a lot of people out there driving drunk, ... and more& » Read the full story: [...]

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Seoul Steps Up Quarantine Efforts Following Avian Influenza Outbreak in China Bernama

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Seoul Steps Up Quarantine Efforts Following Avian Influenza Outbreak In ChinaBernamaSEOUL, Jan 3 (Bernama) -- The South Korean government is stepping up its quarantine efforts to prevent an outbreak of avian influenza here following the death of a man in neighbouring China from a lethal strain of avian influenza, the government said ...Korea Toughens Border [...]

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Factors Associated With Influenza Vaccination Status of Residents of a Rural ... 7thSpace Interactive Press Release

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Factors associated with influenza vaccination status of residents of a rural ...7thSpace Interactive (press release)The rate of influenza vaccination in Japan has declined over the past several decades. It is essential to identify community-specific factors that affect attitudes toward vaccination, but such parameters have not yet been fully determined in Japan. ... Read the full [...]

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WHO Quotdeeply Concernedquot by Mutant Bird Flu AFP

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AFP WHO "deeply concerned" by mutant bird fluAFPTwo separate research teams -- one in the Netherlands and the other in the United States -- have found ways to alter the H5N1 avian influenza so it could pass easily between mammals. Two top scientific journals said on Tuesday they were mulling whether ...UN agency warns of [...]

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