Open Source Disease Modeling: A Tool to Combat the Next Pandemic
Before the age of mass travel, infectious diseases went from local outbreak to international epidemic by ship. In the 21st ...
Tag: Avian Influenza
Promising Results in H7N9 Prime-Boost Vaccine Trial
With hopes of making one dose of an inactivated H7N9 vaccine fully protective, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy ...
U.S. Increasing Laboratory Capacity in Thailand and Cambodia
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has announced intentions to award a sole source contract with Oxford University in support ...
Soft Palate Key Spot for Rapid Flu Virus Evolution
New research indicated the soft palate of your mouth plays and important role in the ability of influenza viruses to ...
New Vaccine Technology from Flu Study Halted by Government
Vaccines to protect against an avian influenza pandemic as well as seasonal flu may be mass produced more quickly and ...
Adjuvants Improve Immune Response to H7N9 Flu Vaccine
In a phase 2 trial that included nearly 1,000 adults, the AS03 and MF59 adjuvants increased the immune responses to ...
Meeting of the Global Alliance for Research on Avian Disease
The Global Alliance for Research on Avian Disease (GARAD) conference will be held June 29-July 1, creating global partnerships to ...
BiondVax Universal Flu Vaccine IND Accepted
BiondVax Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing immunomodulation therapies for infectious diseases, this week ...
USDA Seeks Contract Support for Avian Influenza Response
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking the assistance of contractors as part of ongoing response efforts to the ...
Vaccines Developed for H7N9, H5N1 Flu Strains
A recent study with Kansas State University researchers details vaccine development for two new strains of avian influenza found in ...
Airport Screening for Viruses Misses Half of Infected Travelers
In the past decade, the H1N1 virus and Ebola are just two of the diseases whose spread was spurred by ...
Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research
The National Academies Press has published Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research, a summary of a two-day public symposia ...
Guelph Researchers Create Point-of-Need Avian Flu Diagnostic
University of Guelph researchers have devised a simple, portable and real-time tool to analyze chickens and other farm birds for ...
NIEHS Grants Available: Ebola Biosafety and Response Training
Image credit: Athalia Christie The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is ...
NIH Expands Early-Stage Human Testing of Countermeasures
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded contracts to ...
Biological Engagement Training in Laos
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), on behalf of the Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), intends to award a contract ...
H7N9 Avian Flu Vaccine Better with Adjuvant
An experimental vaccine to protect people against H7N9 avian influenza prompted immune responses in 59 percent of volunteers who received ...
Biodefense News Headlines of the Week – October 5, 2014
Texas: Ebola patient condition worsens as CDC focuses contact tracing | New members of the National Science Advisory Board for ...
Aethlon Announces Dengue Treatment Agreement
Aethlon Medical, Inc. recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with Qualtran, LLC that would expand human clinical ...
H3N8 Found in Harbor Seals Poses a Threat To Humans
A study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists found the avian influenza A H3N8 virus that killed harbor ...
