One of the persistent riddles of the deadly 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic is why it struck different cities with varying severity. Why were some municipalities such as St. Louis spared the fate of the hard-hit cities like Philadelphia when both implemented similar public health measures?
Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Georgia a $7.4 million contract to collaborate with Emory University through its new Regional Center for Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance. Emory and UGA will receive a total of $32.8 million over seven years from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to establish one of six new national influenza centers.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, part of the National Institutes of Health, today named the University of Minnesota as one of six sites across the country that will establish a Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced it is awarding $23 million per year for seven years to establish six Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance.
How is virus as for example HIV and bird flu able to make the cells within a human body work for the purpose of the virus? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen shed new light on this question.
The Ministry of Health in China has reported a new fatal case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case has been confirmed by the national laboratory.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population has announced two new human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection.
WHO welcomes the news from the Minister of Health of Indonesia, who announced at a joint news conference that the country would resume sharing of H5N1 avian influenza virus samples ?immediately?.
Bangladesh has called for international help to upgrade its bird flu testing. There is a large outbreak of avian bird flu in poultry in Bangladesh.
After a two-day meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, among officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) and 18 nations that have had animal and human outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, the government of Indonesia has agreed to resume sharing H5N1 virus samples for the first time since January.