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BusinessWeek
February 9, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
What You Need To Know About Avian Flu The current avian flu outbreak in Asia is the fifth since 1997 to infect humans. This has raised a red flag for infectious disease experts, who fear the strain could mutate and spark a devastating flu pandemic.   |
Popular Mechanics
July 31, 2007
John Galvin |
Spanish Flu Pandemic: 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people around the world -- 34 million more than died from the First World War in progress alongside it. |
Managed Care
February 2005
Jack McCain |
Managed Care (and Everyone Else) Unprepared for the Next Killer Flu Could avian flu give rise to a pandemic that might rival the fearsome Spanish flu? Is the nation ready? Health plans may be called upon to administer vaccinations and identify high-risk patients, but what about he millions of Americans who lack health insurance? |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Avian Influenza 101 Here is everything you need to now about avian influenza so that you can better protect yourself. |
BusinessWeek
October 11, 2004 |
Bird Flu In Thailand: New Fears The death of a 26-year-old Bangkok woman is raising fears that the deadly avian flu may be "learning" how to spread among people -- a step towards a potentially devastating epidemic. |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
A Hot Zone In The Heartland Little could be done to contain a deadly avian flu outbreak. Right now, the U.S. has no national pandemic preparedness plan, either for treating large numbers of patients or for dealing with the resulting economic and social disruptions. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Christine Soares |
Could Animal Surveillance Have Seen Swine Flu Coming? The surveillance of animals for new flu viruses has lagged behind preparations for the human pandemics that can be caused by the bugs |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2005
Anthony Tao |
The Avian Few: Is it Too Late for Pharma to Re-enter the Vaccine Fray? Small profit margins and high litigation risks drove most companies out of the vaccine business decades ago. As a possible pandemic looms, pharma re-enters the fray. Is it too late? |
AskMen.com
Jen Woodward |
False Pandemic Scares While nobody can say for sure if or when another pandemic will strike, these historic false alarms might soothe your fears. |
Chemistry World
May 29, 2013
Hayley Birch |
Fast flu mapping without the sequencing Australian researchers showed that using data from flu virus proteins produced similar trees to those generated by genetic sequencing, suggesting a rapid-fire solution for identifying viruses during outbreaks. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006
Ben Harder |
Seeking Immunity Pathogens like West Nile virus show no respect for borders. But a new class of vaccines may soon keep them in check. |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2006
Gregory Juckett |
Avian Influenza: Preparing for a Pandemic Preparing for a new influenza pandemic involves increasing global influenza surveillance and developing practical strategies for containing outbreaks at the source. |
Searcher
June 2006
Eva C. Perkins |
Is the Price of Cheap Chicken Bird Flu? Information professionals are faced with a situation in which our skills are called upon to soothe the public with reassuring data about the avian flu. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Swine Flu: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Here is a short list of what we do and don't know of swine flu. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2006
Rich Duprey |
Avian Flu Ruffling Feathers Roche Pharmaceuticals boosts anti-flu drug production to quiet calls for generics. While the situation bears watching for now, it's not necessarily something for investors to get their feathers ruffled about. |
Chemistry World
August 3, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
Computational chemistry predicts flu mutations Researchers in the US have shown how it might be possible to use computational chemistry to predict which mutations in a key influenza virus protein could lead to dangerous new strains of the disease. |
Popular Mechanics
September 11, 2009
Emily Anthes |
Debunking 5 Prevalent Swine Flu Myths Some theories circulating online argue that this combination of strains is so unlikely that the new virus must have been created by humans in a lab and then either accidentally or deliberately released. |
Chemistry World
January 22, 2013
Andrew Turley |
Flu vaccine without the eggs approved Flublok from US biotech Protein Sciences has become the first flu vaccine made using an insect virus to win marketing approval in the US. |
Wired
June 2006
J. Craig Venter |
Return of the Flu Jeffery Taubenberger's work on reconstructing viral RNA to better understand its origins is cutting edge and controversial. |
Bio-IT World
November 2005 |
News Blast Applied Biosystems contributes 400,000 primers... Researchers have discovered the full genetic sequence of many different strains of the flu... Sigma-Aldrich launches Panorama Human Cancer Version 1 Protein Functional Microarray... |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2007
Victoria J. Davey |
Questions and Answers on Pandemic Influenza Striking a balance between risk and preparedness. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Swine Flu Update With the fall flu season rapidly approaching, a swine flu update is warranted. |
BusinessWeek
October 24, 2005
John Carey |
New Vaccines For A Pandemic Using DNA, vast amounts of flu vaccine could be made quickly. But will the drugs work? |
Chemistry World
December 6, 2006
Jessica Ebert |
Structure of Key Influenza A Protein Revealed The crystal structure of a molecule important for the replication of the influenza A virus has been solved. Now that scientists know what the protein looks like they can design drugs that block its action and prevent viral spread through the body. |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2004 |
Influenza Vaccine What is influenza?... Who is at higher risk?... What is the flu vaccine?... Is the vaccine safe?... etc. |
Health
June 19, 2009
Ginny Graves |
How to Combat the Latest Supergerms While some germs may be outpacing our ability to kill them, we're not completely defenseless. In fact, there are plenty of things we can do to slow their spread. |
BusinessWeek
November 28, 2005
Kerry Capell |
High-Velocity Vaccines PowderMed says its DNA technology would let it react quickly to a flu pandemic. A DNA flu vaccine would have huge advantages over traditional ones. But first, the company must prove in upcoming large-scale clinical trials that its vaccine can protect people from flu generally. |
Health
October 2007
Sarah Clachar |
Read this BEFORE you get a flu shot The flu vaccine may not be as good -- or as safe -- as you think. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
4 Future Plagues What future plagues await us? Let's have a look. |
InternetNews
March 24, 2008 |
STMicro Launches Microchip to Detect Bird Flu STMicroelectronics, said it has developed a portable chip to detect influenza viruses, including bird flu in humans. |
Chemistry World
June 9, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Artificial virus silences genes Scientists in Korea have created an artificial virus that can target the nucleus of cancer cells and knock out specific genes. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Cassandra Willyard |
A Faster Knockout With a virus, a needle, and an ultrasound machine, researchers have drastically cut the time it takes to disable a gene in mice. |
Scientific American
May 2005
Christine Soares |
Cooping Up Avian Flu Buying time to arm for a pandemic is possible--maybe. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
On the Path of Bird Flu U.S.G.S. biologists are tracking the migration of bar-tailed godwits and other wild migratory birds via satellite to find out if they are likely vectors of H5N1 bird flu. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Brian Lawler |
Happy (Sniffle) Holidays (Cough) It's flu season again, and the market for influenza vaccines is hot. Pharma investors, take note. |
| AskMen.com |
Swine Flu: The Game Dutch researchers have created a free, online-only game that challenges players to control a new pandemic -- swine flu. |
Smithsonian
January 2006
Michael Rosenwald |
The Flu Hunter For years, virologist Robert Webster has been warning of a global influenza outbreak. Now governments worldwide are finally listening to him. |
Chemistry World
July 6, 2012
Steve Down |
Flu fighters are wired Scientists from Peking University and the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, have devised a test which uses a biosensor made from a grid of silicon nanowires which have been functionalized with influenza A antibodies to trap proteins from the virus. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2015
Christopher Barnard |
Drawing order from disorder to unravel Ebola's lethality The virulence of Ebola virus strains appears to be innately linked to the degree of disorder in proteins that form their nucleocapsids. |
Chemistry World
November 11, 2011
Phillip Robinson |
Functionalized fiber catches flu before you do Scientists in China have developed a fibre that can trap the flu virus, which could be used in face masks and air filters to help to control the spread of the disease. |
Chemistry World
May 14, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Bird Flu's Drug Resistance Mapped UK scientists have shown exactly why a mutant version of the deadly bird flu virus H5N1 becomes resistant to the drug oseltamivir - marketed as Tamiflu. |
Managed Care
December 2005
Jack McCain |
Flu's Other Cost If the next pandemic is anything like the 1918 outbreak, hospitals could be overburdened, while some small regional health plans might see their membership decimated, or worse. |
| AskMen.com |
1 Million Swine Flu Cases? Swine flu has infected as many as 1 million Americans, U.S. health officials said Thursday, adding that 6 percent or more of some urban populations are infected. |
Chemistry World
April 16, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
Mass spec pinpoints flu virus types Researchers in Australia have shown that exquisitely accurate mass spectrometry can be used to distinguish between different sub-types of the influenza virus |
Wired
January 2006
Thomas Goetz |
The Battle to Stop Bird Flu The Bird Flu pandemic has hit New Mexico. Inside the Los Alamos weapons lab, massive computer simulations are unleashing disease and tracking its course, 6 billion people at a time. |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Chiron's Bird Flu Contract As Asian bird flu becomes the crisis du jour, this flu vaccine biotech is awarded a hefty contract. |
| AskMen.com |
Flu Overhyped? Some Say So The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating global epidemic was just fear-mongering hype. But that's not how public health officials see it. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2004 |
Flu Vaccinations A general overview on what flu vaccines are and how they can help. |
BusinessWeek
October 25, 2004
John Carey |
A Booster Shot For Vaccines New technology could speed the development of vaccines and keep the medicine chest stocked. |
Chemistry World
February 2006 |
Editorial: Fighting Avian Flu Participants at a world avian flu conference in Beijing committed to increasing cooperation on global vaccine and anti-viral research and development. |
