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...worried about an outbreak of avian flu in Europe [Oct. 17]. But as a Hungarian, I'm happy that doctors in my country are far along in developing a vaccine against the deadly h5n1 strain of Asian bird flu. The faster we get the antiviral drugs to fight this disease, the more people will survive it. But how many are going to die before we do get the drugs? The prototype of the vaccine has produced positive results in humans, and Hungary should be able to produce it in large quantities. We must learn to live with and combat this...
...fears about a bird flu pandemic continue to mount, Harvard is preparing for a possible influenza outbreak and increasing its supply of seasonal flu vaccines. The bird flu mutation, avian influenza A (H5N1), has killed more than 60 people in Asia over the past two years, according to the World Health Organization. Recently, the virus spread to birds in eastern Europe. Avian influenza A is currently only transmitted to humans via contact with birds. However, an influenza pandemic could begin if the virus mutated, enabling it to spread from person to person easily, according to the Centers for Disease Control...
...Scientists and doctors cannot tell us where or when the next pandemic will strike, or how severe it will be, but most agree: At some point, we are likely to face another pandemic," Bush said. "And the scientific community is increasingly concerned by a new influenza virus known as H5N1-or avian flu-that is now spreading through bird populations across Asia, and has recently reached Europe." Bush's Homeland Security Council now includes a Special Assistant to the President for Biological Defense Policy. That official, Rajeev Venkayya, held a briefing for reporters on "Safeguarding America Against Pandemic Influenza...
...your underwear all came from southern China, the new manufacturing center of the world. Add one more export: your flu virus. With its dense populations of people and animals trading germs back and forth, southern China has been the traditional birthplace of influenza, including the nasty strain of H5N1 bird flu that's keeping public-health officials awake at night. The viruses that evolve in a chicken in southern China's Guangdong province could eventually end up in your lungs--and that's what makes a chain-smoking, impetuous Chinese virologist named Dr. Guan Yi so important...
...dirty work--every day researchers pick through less than hygienic live poultry markets, persuading traders to allow them to take blood and feces samples from their chickens and waterfowl. From those samples, Guan and his team have managed to sequence the genetic code for more than 250 strains of H5N1--giving them a chillingly accurate picture of how widespread bird flu is in the region and how the virus is mutating. "We have to know what's in animals, so we know what could be in human beings," says Guan...