http://www.disabled-world.com/ Disability Community News and Information Wed, 09 May 2012 09:11:39 EST en-us http://www.disabled-world.com/health/influenza/birdflu/h5n1.php Avian Influenza Bird Flu A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is laudable. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:05:18 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/health/influenza/birdflu/h5n1.php http://www.disabled-world.com/health/influenza/birdflu/bird-flu-compound.php Avian Influenza Bird Flu The specter of a drug-resistant form of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza is a nightmare to keep public health officials awake at night. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:26:16 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/health/influenza/birdflu/bird-flu-compound.php http://www.disabled-world.com/health/influenza/birdflu/bird-flu-suggestions.php Avian Influenza Bird Flu There has been no human to human transfer of the Bird Flu. The fear is that the virus will mutate to a form that will allow direct human contact to pass the virus. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:17:53 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/health/influenza/birdflu/bird-flu-suggestions.php http://www.disabled-world.com/health/influenza/birdflu/monoclonal-antibodies.php Avian Influenza Bird Flu Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Dana-Farber), Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported the identification of human monoclonal antibodies (mAb) that neutralize an unprecedented range of influenza A viruses, including avian influenza A (H5N1) virus, previous pandemic influenza viruses, and some seasonal influenza viruses. Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:20:06 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/health/influenza/birdflu/monoclonal-antibodies.php http://www.disabled-world.com/health/influenza/birdflu/antiviral-drugs.php Avian Influenza Bird Flu Influenza's ability to resist the effects of cheap and popular antiviral agents in Asia and Russia should serve as a cautionary tale about U.S. plans to use the antiviral Tamiflu in the event of widespread avian flu infection in humans, scientists say. Researchers analyzed almost 700 genome sequences of avian influenza strains to document where and when the virus developed resistance to a class of antiviral drugs called adamantanes and how far resistant strains spread. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:15:39 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/health/influenza/birdflu/antiviral-drugs.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/research/avian-flu-resistance.php Medical Research A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the resistance of the avian flu virus to a major class of antiviral drugs is increasing through positive evolutionary selection, with researchers documenting the trend in more than 30 percent of the samples tested. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:51:54 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/research/avian-flu-resistance.php