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WHO warns of rising bird flu pandemic risk
The headlines may have died down in recent months, but bird flu experts say that the threat of a global pandemic has actually been growing. The World Health Organization outlined the spread of the Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Vaccine a success for human-to-human H5N1 case
A confirmed case of bird flu in China has confirmed that the threat of human-to-human contagion is still largely limited to the blood relatives of those infected. In an important case for vaccine Read more...
Iomai gets boost in bird flu vaccine adjuvant study
In a Phase I/II trial, three out of every four people in a study of 500 people using an adjuvant patch developed by Iomai achieved a protective immune response after a single dose. That compares to Read more...
Vietnamese launch human trial of bird flu vaccine
A Vietnamese company is beginning a human trial of a new bird flu vaccine. Vabiotech, a subsidiary of Vietnam's National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, plans eight months of testing in a Read more...
Japanese R&D team targets next gen flu jabs
Investigators in Japan have designed a new vaccine that has been effective in animal tests against multiple strains of influenza, including varieties of the dread bird flu. Using a peptide derived Read more...
GSK bird flu vaccine provides more positive data
New trial data on GlaxoSmithKline's experimental bird flu vaccine indicates that the drug works against a variety of subsets of the virus. A trial that recruited volunteers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Read more...
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