Anti-viral drugs for bird workers
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Anti-viral drugs are offered to nearly 500 people following the avian flu outbreak at a Suffolk turkey farm.
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Preliminary results from an early clinical trial of a vaccine for pandemic bird flu suggest the vaccine is safe and well tolerated and may prove effective against divergent strains of the disease, Baxter International Inc. said on Wednesday .
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A potential flu pandemic vaccine based on one strain of the H5N1 bird flu works against other versions of the virus as well, the vaccine's manufacturer said Monday.
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Influenza viruses are quickly evolving resistance to the few drugs on the market that fight them, but there are weaknesses that could be exploited, experts told a conference on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Among young children with influenza, virus mutations that are resistant to Tamiflu arise in about 20 percent of those treated with the drug, Japanese researchers report.
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Research on the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus has revealed a molecular structure that appears to be a promising target for antiviral drugs.
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A combination of two experimental AIDS drugs can help control the deadly virus in people who are infected with highly resistant forms, an international team of researchers reported on Thursday.
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Researchers at Queen Mary Hospital, London, have revealed that Roche&#39;s Tamiflu, an anti flu drug, works against the bird flu virus H5N1 strain (the most lethal one).
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The European Commission said Monday it has approved two vaccines to be used against the bird flu virus in the EU member states. The vaccines, the first to be approved by the EU executive, are Nobilis Influenza H5N2, for use in chickens, and Poulvac FluFend H5N3 RG, for use in both chickens and Pekin ducks, the most common breed of duck used for commercial meat.
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New drugs that mimic mutations found in buff animals could treat muscle-wasting diseases.
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Outfitting swans with super-light Teflon backpacks containing solar-powered GPS satellite transmitters is the latest way scientists and researchers are trying to fight the spread of avian influenza.
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The World Health Organisation believes domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in Asia this year.
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Scientists in China have developed a  bird flu vaccine for poultry and mammals that can fend off the  deadly virus and help stop its spread, the China Daily  newspaper said on Monday.
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The World Health Organization is urging drugmakers including GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Sanofi-Aventis SA and Chiron Corp. to join in developing a vaccine to stop Asia&#39;s deadly bird flu virus from triggering a pandemic.
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A bird flu vaccine for humans that uses  only a very low dose of active ingredient has proved effective  in clinical tests and could be available in 2007, its maker  GlaxoSmithKline Plc  said on Wednesday.
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Purdue University researchers have developed a group of rhodium-based compounds, that when exposed to light, can kill tumour cells and deactivate a virus closely related to the West Nile and yellow fever viruses.
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Scientists in Hong Kong said on  Tuesday they had devised a new way to identify chemicals that  can counter new and dangerous viruses, such as SARS, and these  chemicals may be developed into drugs.