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• Scientists isolate genes that made 1918 flu lethal

  Writing today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison virologists Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Tokiko Watanabe identifies genes that gave the 1918 virus the capacity to reproduce in lung tissue, Read More...
  Posted Thursday, January 01, 2009 9:04 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: DNA, bird flu

• Sharp unveils new anti-bird flu air purifier

  Japan's Sharp Corp. said Wednesday that it has developed an air purifier that eliminates 99.9 percent of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu within 10 minutes. The system has been improved from an earlier version which was shown in 2005 to have eliminated Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:30 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: avian influenza, bird flu, air purifier

• Penn Study Pinpoints New DNA Weapon Against Bird Flu

  A new way to vaccinate against avian influenza that tricks the immune system into mounting a broad response against multiple strains of the disease, including strains to which the immune system was never exposed, has been devised by researchers at the Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 7:02 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: avian influenza, bird flu