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News: February 14, 2012
U.S. Advisers Explain Request to Censor Bird Flu Research
TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Concerns that research into a genetically mutated form of bird flu could escape from labs or fall into the hands of bioterrorists led U.S. scientific advisers to ask two prominent journals to withhold key detai...
Researchers Agree to Postpone Bird Flu Research
FRIDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists agreed Friday to a 60-day moratorium on research into a modified avian flu virus that has been demonstrated to be more transmissible among mammals. Although the investigators believe their research ha...
Two U.S. Children Contract New Strain of Swine Flu
FRIDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating two recent cases of swine flu in which the new strain of flu passed directly from pigs to children. This strain of flu does not ap...
Flu Diagnostic Kit Approved
FRIDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A kit to diagnose seasonal influenza, bird flu and other forms of flu that affect people has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The CDC Human Influenza Virus Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Pane...
Scientists Find Way to Stop Spread of Bird Flu in Chickens
THURSDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have developed genetically modified chickens that don't transmit bird flu to other chickens. This achievement could stop bird flu outbreaks from spreading within poultry flocks and possibly reduce t...
Bird Flu Detection Takes a Novel Turn
THURSDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Bloodhounds, you've now got some unusual company: Trained mice were able to detect bird flu in ducks, according to novel research. "Based on our results, we believe dogs, as well as mice, could be trained to i...
Deadly Hybrid Flu Possible
MONDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Research in mice suggests the avian flu virus and the ordinary seasonal flu virus could combine to create a new deadly kind of flu, researchers say. A single bit of genetic material from the seasonal virus conve...
New Weapon May Help Battle Bird Flu
THURSDAY, Dec. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Based on findings in animals, researchers are reporting that a new compound may be a better choice for treating bird flu -- also known as avian influenza (H5N1) -- than the antiviral Tamiflu. "H5N1 virus is so...
Early H1N1 Vaccination Saves Lives, Cuts Costs: Study
MONDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) -- To minimize deaths from the H1N1 pandemic swine flu, vaccination should start as soon as possible, a new U.S. study suggests. "Earlier -- October versus November -- vaccination saves more lives and costs less," s...
Could Swine Flu Panic Be Worse Than Outbreak Itself?
TUESDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) -- With all the warnings and preparations, dire predictions and hastily ordered vaccines, could the growing worry about H1N1 swine flu prove more disruptive than the actual outbreak? That notion is weighing on th...
Swine Flu May Be Less Dangerous Than Predicted: Study
TUESDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Fears that the H1N1 swine flu will turn into a "superbug" this year may be unfounded, say researchers at the University of Maryland. In laboratory tests, the virus responsible for the swine flu pandemic did not...
Bird Flu Virus Can Survive Two Years in Landfill
FRIDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Poultry carcasses infected with the bird flu virus can remain infectious in municipal landfills for as long as two years, say Nebraska researchers. Hundreds of millions of chickens and ducks infected with bird fl...
U.S. Response to Swine Flu Called Good
FRIDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Although the U.S. response to the ongoing H1N1 swine flu outbreak that surfaced unexpectedly in April has been largely effective, there are shortcomings that must be addressed. And those shortcomings could take o...
Report Gives U.S. Good Grades for Swine Flu Response
THURSDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- Although the U.S. response to the ongoing H1N1 swine flu outbreak that surfaced unexpectedly in April has been largely effective, there are shortcomings that must be addressed. And those shortcomings could take...
New Methods Could Speed Production of Flu Vaccines
MONDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccines made up of virus-like particles (VLPs) could provide stronger and longer-lasting protection against flu viruses than conventional vaccines, researchers say. Even better, VLP vaccines, which can be grown ...
Human Nose Too Cold for Bird Flu Virus
FRIDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- The inside of the human nose is a bit too chilly for the H5N1 avian flu virus, perhaps explaining why the strain has so far not spread easily between people, British and U.S. scientists reported Friday. According...
1976 Swine Flu Outbreak Offers Echoes, Lessons Today
MONDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) -- Seemingly out of nowhere, a new strain of flu linked to one usually seen in pigs emerges, spreads and sets off alarms among officials and the U.S. public. Sound familiar? Just such a swine flu outbreak occurred de...
Swine Flu Vaccine Still Months Away
THURSDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) -- In the face of a possible swine flu pandemic, U.S. health officials are already collecting information and ingredients with an eye to creating a swine flu vaccine. And even though experts say there's no guara...
WHO Warns of Possible Pandemic as Mexico Seeks to Contain Swine Flu
SATURDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) -- Mexican authorities continued to take dramatic steps over the weekend to try to contain the swine flu outbreak that officials say has killed as many as 81 people, and sickened more than 1,300 others. In the U...
At Least 20 Dead, Hundreds Ill in Swine Flu Outbreak in Mexico
FRIDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- Mexican officials took extraordinary steps Friday to try to contain a swine flu outbreak that has killed as many as 20 people, and possibly dozens more, and sickened more than 1,000 other people in recent weeks...
Swine Flu Cases Now Total 7: CDC
THURSDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- Seven people in California and Texas have now been diagnosed with a unique form of swine flu, U.S. health officials said Thursday. All seven people have recovered, Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the U.S. Cent...
Rapid Test to Detect Bird Flu in People Approved
WEDNESDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- A rapid test to detect the H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency said in a news release. The AVantage A/H5N1 Flu Test detects the deadly strain ...
Discovery May Boost Bird Flu Vaccine Potency
THURSDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- Boosting T-cell immunity may be one way to improve existing vaccines so that they can protect people during a bird flu pandemic, says an Australian study. "The 'killer T-cell' is the hit-man of the immune syst...
Scientists May Have New Way to Fight the Flu
SUNDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- A new scientific discovery could someday lead to medications to fight the flu as well as a vaccine that would not have to be changed every year because it could target a broad range of flu strains. "We identifie...
U.S. Flu Season Off to Slow Start
TUESDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- There are far fewer cases of flu in the United States so far this year compared to last year, a sign that the nation may be in for a relatively mild flu season, experts said Tuesday. But, the experts also said t...
Drug Impedes Body's Deadly Reaction to Flu Virus
FRIDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) -- A drug may be able to dampen part of the body's immune response so infections can be fought without a resulting overkill that may cause the person to perish, a new study says. The compound sphingosine analog AAL...
Common Flu Strain Resistant to Popular Antiviral Drug
THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The most common strain of flu this season is resistant to the popular antiviral drug Tamiflu, but government health officials said Thursday there is no reason to panic. The fact that the flu season so far has b...
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