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...unusually high number of Cabot students became ill with a 24-hour stomach virus that spread rapidly amongst residents earlier this week. Harvard University Health Services (UHS) saw roughly 15 Cabot students suffering from gastroenteritis between late Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, according to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal. This represents a spike in occurrences, said Rosenthal, who added that UHS generally sees between six and eight cases of gastroenteritis per week in the winter. The increase and concentrated area of cases suggest that the virus was likely “communally transmitted, or came from one common source?...
Avian flu claimed more lives last week. In eastern Turkey, initial tests showed at least two of the three deceased siblings from the Kocyigit family had succumbed to the virus' dreaded H5N1 strain, becoming its first human victims outside East Asia. As fears of a pandemic continue to grow, customs and health official's are struggling to halt a burgeoning trade in counterfeit forms of Tamiflu, the only drug approved to treat the disease. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials tell TIME that last week their officers seized 250 separate parcels of suspect Tamiflu at the airmail facility...
...threat of avian flu may have passed before the next-generation vaccines make it to market, the work won't be wasted. The upgrade will make even the annual flu vaccines more effective and will prepare us better for when the next pandemic threat looms. CURRENT METHOD: EGG CULTURE Virus is purified and chemically killed to produce the vaccine Virus --> Virus is grown in fertilized chicken eggs --> Vaccine NEW METHOD: HUMAN-CELL CULTURE Virus is killed and processed to produce the vaccine Virus --> Cell --> Virus is grown in human-cell culture --> Vaccine GENETIC METHOD: DNA VACCINES Plasmid is manufactured...
...Number of confirmed bird-flu deaths in China in 2005, after the virus killed a 41-year-old woman in Fujian province last month
...territory in the Asia-Pacific region said avian flu topped a list of issues expected to affect the world in the coming year, followed closely by fears of economic slowdown and terrorism. But the results varied widely from place to place: in Hong Kong, where the H5N1 virus first appeared in 1997 and where SARS killed 300 in 2003, more than half of those surveyed called avian flu the biggest issue for 2006. In South Korea, 46% put economic woes at the top of their list, a fear shared by one in three Indonesian respondents. Australians said terrorism will...