influenza

Perspectives

• 21 June 2010 - PANDEMICS

  Infectious disease governance – a globalised yet divided world

  influenza, HIV, AIDS, H1N1, outbreaks, neglected diseases

  

  The outbreak of the global influenza A pandemic (H1N1) revealed the difficulty for governments to control sudden outbreaks of highly infectious diseases effectively in an age where the mobility of people is higher than ever. The swine flu pandemic also highlighted the wide gap that exists between developing and developed countries in terms of their ability to provide the drugs and health services necessary to protect their citizens. By Anna Holzscheiter [ more ]

Interviews

• 30 September 2009 - VACCINE DEVELOPMENT

  "Finding a link between infection and protection from a particular disease"

  autoimmune diseases, H1N1, influenza

  

  Bhagirath Singh is Scientific Director of the Institute of Infection and Immunity, Canada. In this interview he explains how, using his background in chemistry, he was able to demonstrate in the 1980s that a small peptide can induce the same immune response as a large protein and why this started a new way of thinking in immunology, and why it completely changed the way we approach vaccine production today. [ more ]

News

• 15 March 2013 - UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/EID

  Predicting hotspots for future flu outbreaks

  bird flu, H5N1, H3N2, influenza, outbreaks

  A major pandemic could occur if bird flu were to become highly contagious among humans. UCLA scientists are making sure we get a leg up on the threat by developing predictions about where outbreaks are most likely to begin. According to their models, coastal and central China and Egypt's Nile Delta are danger zones... [ more ]

• 28 February 2013 - JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE / AJE

  Resistant 'Staph' bacteria show seasonal preference

  MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, influenza, respiratory infections, superbugs

  Strains of potentially deadly, antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria show seasonal infection preferences, putting children at greater risk in summer and seniors at greater risk in winter, according to results of a new nationwide study. It's unclear why these seasonal and age preferences for infection... [ more ]

• 22 February 2013 - UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA/SCIENCE

  New flu drug stops virus in its tracks

  flu, influenza, neuraminidase inhibitors

  A new class of influenza drug has been shown effective against drug-resistant strains of the flu virus, according to a study led by University of British Columbia researchers. Published online today in the journal Science Express, the study details the development of a new drug candidate that prevents the flu virus... [ more ]

• 29 January 2013 - JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

  A better way to screen the tweets for tracking flu

  flu, influenza, outbreaks

  Sifting through social media messages has become a popular way to track when and where flu cases occur, but a key hurdle hampers the process: how to identify flu-infection tweets. Some tweets are posted by people who have been sick with the virus, while others come from folks who are merely talking about the illness.... [ more ]

• 16 May 2013 - Proteome atlas for the tuberculosis pathogen

• 15 May 2013 - Asymptomatic carriage of M. pneumoniae in children

• 14 May 2013 - Four pathogens are causing most diarrhoeal deaths

• May 18 - 21, 2013

  ASM 113th General Meeting

  DENVER, CO, USA

• May 21 - 23, 2013

  International Scientific Conference on Bacteriocins and Antimicrobial Peptides

  KOSICE, SLOVAKIA

• May 20 - 25, 2013

  Retroviruses

  COLD SPRING HARBOR, NY, USA

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