Feature Channels: Infectious Diseases

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RTI International has experts available to address issues concerning a bird flu outbreak.

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An editorial paints a picture of a world population very susceptible to an avian flu pandemic, but also offers suggestions to physicians that could help answer questions presented by patients who may be feeling anxious about the "bird flu."

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A new article puts in perspective some "startling" new research regarding Avian flu.

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The federal government recently announced a $7.1 billion national strategy to combat pandemic influenza. To help your audience understand the various issues surrounding the Asian Bird Flu, expert sources are available at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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How many lives could be saved if we could peer into a "crystal ball" and see what medical threats loom in the future? Researchers may have achieved the medical equivalent when they developed and patented a technique to reconstruct and characterize the Spanish flu of 1918.

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Dr. Brian Currie, Senior Medical Director at Montefiore Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is a specialist in epidemiology and infectious diseases. He is informed and frequently quoted in national media about flu viruses and H5N1.

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Private businesses need to act sooner rather than later in preparing for a possible avian flu outbreak, says William Stanhope, associate director of the Institute for Biosecurity at Saint Louis University School of Public Health.

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The federal government needs to take a lead in directing state and local health departments to prepare for an avian flu pandemic, says Greg Evans, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Biosecurity at Saint Louis University School of Public Health.

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In a free, public lecture on Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 5:30pm in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Grace Auditorium, Dr. Kanta Subbarao will address these and many other intriguing questions about the H5N1 influenza strain of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu.

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To many agricultural purists, corporate control of food production is for the birds. The business model, however, could be a key component in preventing an outbreak of avian influenza within the U.S. poultry industry, say two poultry experts based at Purdue University.

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The avian flu is likely to place a huge financial strain on U.S. hospitals unless the government offsets losses not covered by insurance, authors of a book chapter on international health management predict. The researchers studied how SARS affected Taiwan hospitals in 2002-2003.

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SDSU's Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory is making preparations to become a testing center for the highly virulent strain of avian influenza identified as H5N1.

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Avian influenza virus samples collected from wild birds in Mongolia by veterinarians from the New York City-based Wildlife Conservation Society have been selected by the World Health Organization to be part of a new human pandemic influenza vaccine currently in development.

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Researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering have developed software that is helping public health officials design vaccination clinics and streamline processes to ensure that the optimal number of people will be vaccinated quickly, especially in times of crisis.

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In the absence of a specific avian flu vaccine, could antiviral drugs thwart a pandemic should the virus spread from birds to humans? One person with a detailed knowledge of that subject is Dr. Anne Moscona, an infectious-disease expert at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

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Concern about avian flu is spreading internationally. Kenneth McIntosh, MD, emeritus chief of the division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital Boston, has studied historical outbreaks and can provide detailed information about potential strains, mutations and vaccines.

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Thanks to a new technique to more efficiently produce the disarmed viruses that are the seed stock for making flu vaccine in large quantities, life-saving inoculations needed to fight an influenza pandemic may be available more readily than before.

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Virologists at Cornell University's Animal Health Diagnostic Center isolate hundreds of respiratory and intestinal tract samples each month from New York City's live bird markets in an effort to root out any types of avian influenza virus and prevent such a flu in humans.

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Understanding how the avian flu virus enters and infects a cell may lead to new vaccines and antiviral drugs that will be critical if a virulent form of bird flu jumps to humans.

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Experts from the Virginia Tech and University of Maryland campuses of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine will brief media on avian flu and other looming infectious animal-human diseases, effects of disasters on animals and their owners, and emergency preparedness for disease and disaster.

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Health officials have issued warnings for months about the danger the avian flu could pose to humans, but an expert from Purdue University says that while the threat is real, there is a great deal that can be done to stop a worst-case scenario.

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Alfonso Torres, director of the Animal Health Diagnostic Center and associate dean for veterinary public policy at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses the avian flu virus and international policy to deal with it.

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A harmless virus used as a delivery vehicle may help set a roadblock for a potentially catastrophic human outbreak of bird flu, according to researchers at Purdue University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Wildlife health experts from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society warn that efforts to control the spread of avian flu across Asia and beyond must focus on better management practices on farms and in markets.

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A carefully chosen combination of public health measures, if implemented early, could stop the spread of an avian flu outbreak at its source, suggest two international teams of researchers.

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Governments around the world must stop burying their heads in the sand over the growing threat of a global epidemic of avian flu, argues a GP.

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A group of scientists and veterinarians from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society today applauded China's decision to ban trade in wild birds to help prevent the spread of Avian Flu.

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A group of scientists and wildlife health experts say that closing Asia's wild bird markets would reduce the spread of Avian flu. The markets place tens of thousands of wild and domestic birds in close quarters, allowing diseases to make the jump between wild animals, livestock, and ultimately humans.

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In the wake of at least three confirmed human deaths from an avian influenza in Viet Nam, the question of whether these viruses can be transmitted between humans looms. University of Maryland virologist Daniel Perez uses a cutting edge reverse genetics process to research how a virus makes the jump from bird to human.