Biodefense News Headlines of the Week – August 4, 2013
U.S. rejects Russian accusations on Georgian biolab | CSIRO forms international partnership to identify next pandemic | Policeman killed in ...
Tag: H7N9
Biodefense News Headlines of the Week – July 28, 2013
Does the dangerous new Middle East coronavirus have an African origin? | Cities might not be as prepared as they ...
Biodefense News Headlines of the Week – July 21, 2013
Staying safe in a biology revolution | New approach to protecting prion protein from altering shape | Study: H7N9 highly ...
Tests Fail to Identify Antiviral Resistance in H7N9 Influenza Strains
Some strains of the avian H7N9 influenza that emerged in China this year have developed resistance to the only antiviral ...
Biodefense News Headlines of the Week – July 14, 2013
Zombie Lessons for Pandemic Preparedness | New studies on H7N9 raise pandemic concerns | House science panel gives big hug ...
Biodefense News Headlines of the Week – July 7, 2013
Senator seeks conflict-of-interest probes on anthrax drug purchases | China reports H7N9-H3N2 coinfection, more deaths | Protecting the milk supply ...
Universal DNA Vaccine Shown Responsive to H7N9 Influenza
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced that in a preclinical study of its influenza DNA vaccine against the newly emergent, virulent ...
Biodefense News Headlines of the Week – June 9, 2013
DHS lab seen as key to biodefense effort | WHO raises its MERS-CoV count to 55 cases, 31 deaths | ...
Emerging H7N9 Influenza Demonstrates Antiviral Drug Resistance
Drug resistance to the primary influenza treatment Tamiflu appears to develop easily with the new H7N9 avian flu, according to ...
Pigs and Ferrets Shown to Be Susceptible to Emerging H7N9 Influenza
Researchers supported in part by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have used virus isolated from a ...
Novavax Initiates Animal Testing of H7N9 VLP Vaccine
Novavax, Inc. this week announced it has completed purification of a virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine candidate for the emerging H7N9 ...
Medicago Produces VLP Vaccine Candidate for Emerging H7N9 Virus
Medicago Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), this week ...
Scientists Pursue New Therapies as Deadly H7N9 Flu Spreads in China
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified an experimental drug that has shown promise in treating ...
CDC Test Now Available for Emerging H7N9 Influenza
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is making available diagnostic materials to specifically detect the new avian influenza A (H7N9) ...
H7N9 Cases Hit 64 Total, Spreading to New Regions
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday announced nine additional laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A(H7N9) in China, bringing the official total ...
UN Health Agency: ‘Everything Possible is Being Done’ to Tackle New Flu Virus
All possible steps to monitor and contain the spread of the H7N9 influenza virus in China are being taken by local authorities, ...
Pathogen Alert: H7N9 Avian Influenza Human Infections in China
The World Health Organization (WHO) has received notification of three cases of human infection with influenza A (H7N9), previously unknown ...
