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Bird flu can spread in mammals, study finds
In a long-awaited study that helped prompt a contentious debate over the wisdom of conducting research that has the potential to help as well as harm, scientists reported Wednesday that they had engineered a mutant strain of bird flu that can spread...
Tags: Health Organizations, Genes and Chromosomes, Epidemics and Plagues, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Science and Technology
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Book Review: 'Tinderbox' by Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin
Special to Tribune NewspapersTinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and the How the World Can Finally Overcome It By Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin Penguin Press, 421 pp., $29.95 Few diseases have been the subject of more books than the HIV/AIDS pandemic, with such...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, The Washington Post, Epidemics and Plagues, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body
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'We Bought a Zoo' gets parody Twitter account
Company TownA new Twitter account that went online Wednesday looks remarkably like a real one for the upcoming Matt Damon-Scarlett Johansson family drama "We Bought a Zoo."... -
With memories of the 2009 pandemic, Mexico braces for flu season
World NowREPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities report a fresh outbreak of the swine flu that killed hundreds and virtually paralyzed this sprawling capital in 2009. But the number of cases fits the "normal" flu-season pattern and should not cause... -
China's H5N1 bird flu scare should be least of influenza worries
Local Chinese health officials have appealed for calm after the death of a man infected with H5N1 bird flu in the city of Shenzhen.
"Though it is highly pathogenic to human beings, the virus can not spread among people," said in a statement from the...Tags: Health Organizations, Flu, China, Flu Vaccine, Bird Flu
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The virus of 'Contagion': What are moviegoers really scared of?
The Big PictureIs it really a big surprise to discover that while America is enduring its worst economic downturn in 70 years and experiencing a paroxysm of partisan political infighting that the No. 1 movie last weekend was “Contagion,” which depicts a........ -
Dr. David Sencer dies at 86; CDC director from 1966 to '77
Dr. David Sencer, a prominent former federal health official whose career was tainted by controversy over a swine flu vaccination campaign in the 1970s, died Monday in an Atlanta hospital after a bout with pneumonia. He was 86.
Sencer was director of the...Tags: American Legion, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Lungs and Airways, Epidemics and Plagues, Harvard University
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Edwin D. Kilbourne dies at 90; virologist developed flu vaccine
Dr. Edwin D. Kilbourne, a virologist who figured out how to manufacture a new influenza vaccine each year and was a principal advisor to the U.S. government on flu, died Feb. 21 in Branford, Conn. He was 90. No cause of death was released.
Kilbourne...Tags: Chemicals, Food and Drug Administration, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Mount Sinai
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Last year's flu vaccine: All in all, not so bad
It was thrown together in a hurry, only aimed to protect against one strain of influenza, and arrived on the market well after the novel flu virus had gained a foothold in the general population. But last year's vaccine against the novel H1N1 flu, in...Tags: Chemicals, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Health, Preventative Medicine
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USDA licenses first-ever canine influenza vaccine
L.A. UnleashedA vaccine to protect dogs from canine influenza, or H3N8, has received the U.S. Department of Agriculture's stamp of approval. The company Intervet/Schering Plough Animal Health released the vaccine, called Nobivac, last year. Since then, Nobivac had been...
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