Word: h5n1
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...very interesting meningitis vaccine and an H5N1-flu-pandemic vaccine, which we're working on in clinical trials. Then we have the new cell-culture-based vaccine technology, which we have developed in Germany, and it's basically ready; we need regulatory approval. We're building a very large cell-based manufacturing plant in North Carolina...
...communicable diseases at the World Health Organization; as the WHO's next director-general; in Geneva. A former head of Hong Kong's health department, Chan succeeded Lee Jong Wook, who died of a stroke in May. She was praised for her decisive handling of Hong Kong's H5N1 avian-flu outbreak in 1997. But during the 2003 SARS crisis that killed 299 in the territory, she was criticized for her slow response and her failure to investigate earlier outbreaks of the disease across the border on the Chinese mainland. During her campaign for the WHO's top job, Chan...
...This is the most significant development so far in terms of public health." PETER CORDINGLEY, World Health Organization spokesperson, on a cluster of human bird-flu cases in a family in north Sumatra, Indonesia, which officials believe may represent the first time the H5N1 virus has passed between multiple human hosts...
...seem to have abated in recent weeks, but scientists know the world is always one viral mutation away from a deadly pandemic. That fact has been driven home again by a worrying cluster of human bird flu cases in rural Indonesia that could represent the first time the H5N1 virus has managed to pass from human to human to human. The cluster likely began with a 37-year-old woman who hosted a family pork roast on April 29 in the Indonesian village of Kubu Sembilang in north Sumatra. The woman had become sick on April...
...study of fossils to the mapping of the genome, but it is also profoundly practical in application. Scientists are debating the likelihood and timing of a horrific pandemic caused by avian flu. Those who worry about that possibility and reject evolution live in a world of contradiction. If the H5N1 virus, the infective agent for avian flu, adopts a new lifestyle and moves directly from one human host to another, it would be because it evolved that capacity...