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H7N9 Bird Flu Virus May Be Human Transmissible
The novel H7N9 bird flu virus may be human transmissible through direct contact as well as through airborne exposure, according to a new study. Scientists came up with this conclusion after discovering that the virus, which has already killed 36 people in China, can spread between ferrets... (Medical News Today)

Low Population Immunity Predicted If New Bird Flu Virus H7N9 Escalates Into A Human Pandemic
The level of immunity to the recently circulating H7N9 influenza virus in an urban and rural population in Vietnam is very low, according to the first population level study to examine human immunity to the virus, which was previously only found in birds. The findings have implications for planning the public health response to this pandemic threat... (Medical News Today)

Computer Model Predicts When Viruses Become Infectious
A new computer model could help scientists predict when a particular strain of avian influenza might become infectious from bird to human, according to a report to be published in the International Journal Data Mining and Bioinformatics... (Medical News Today)

Evidence Of Host Adaptation Of Avian-Origin Influenza A Virus
A novel avian-origin reassortant influenza A (H7N9) virus emerged in China in February 2013, and is associated with severe lower respiratory tract diseases. To date, more than 100 human cases of infection, including at least 20 deaths, have been reported in China. Three early cases of infection were described in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China... (Medical News Today)

Measures Necessary To Prevent Possible Bird Flu Pandemic
On 31 March 2013, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission announced human cases of novel H7N9 influenza virus infections... (Medical News Today)

Study Identifies Influenza Viruses Circulating In Pigs And Birds That Could Pose A Risk To Humans
In the summer of 1968, a new strain of influenza appeared in Hong Kong. This strain, known as H3N2, spread around the globe and eventually killed an estimated 1 million people. A new study from MIT reveals that there are many strains of H3N2 circulating in birds and pigs that are genetically similar to the 1968 strain and have the potential to generate a pandemic if they leap to humans... (Medical News Today)

A New Vaccine To Protect Against Multiple Strains of H7N9 Bird Flu Virus
A vaccine that provides wider protection against multiple strains of the bird flu virus, H7N9, is currently being worked on as the outbreak in China continues to get worse. In a news conference held by the World Health Organization (WHO), they cautioned the public that the H7N9 virus, which is responsible for the present outbreak, is one of the most fatal seen in the latest years... (Medical News Today)

Threat Of Flu Pandemic Is Real, Say MIT Researchers
Many H3N2 virus strains which are circulating in pigs and birds are genetically very similar to the 1968 "Hong Kong" flu, also an H3N2 strain that spread around the world and eventually killed approximately one million people, a new study carried out at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has found... (Medical News Today)

Mapping The Risks Of H7N9 Bird Flu Infection
A map of avian influenza (H7N9) risk is presented in Biomed Central's open access journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty. The map is comprised of bird migration patterns, and adding in estimations of poultry production and consumption, which are used to infer future risk and to advise on ways to prevent infection... (Medical News Today)

Scientists Pursue New Therapies As Deadly H7N9 Flu Spreads In China
An experimental drug has shown promise in treating influenza, preventing lung injury and death from the virus in preclinical studies, according to University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers publishing in the journal Nature. The scientists found that a drug called Eritoran can protect mice from death after they have been infected with a lethal dose of influenza virus... (Medical News Today)

Source Of H7N9 Avian Influenza Virus Causing Human Infections Identified
In March 2013, a novel H7N9 influenza virus was identified in China as the etiological agent of a flu-like disease in humans, resulting in some deaths... (Medical News Today)

Wet Market Poultry Transmitting H7N9 Bird Flu To Humans In China
Researchers have confirmed that the A H7N9 bird flu virus, which began in February 2013, was transmitted from chickens at a wet poultry market to humans, according to a new study published in the The Lancet. Wet markets, which are common in Asian countries, are live animal markets... (Medical News Today)

Australia Protected By Biogeographic Barrier From Avian Flu But Not From Nipah Virus
An invisible barrier separates land animals in Australia from those in south-east Asia may also restrict the spillover of animal-borne diseases like avian flu, but researchers have found that fruit bats on either side of this line can carry Nipah virus, a pathogen that causes severe human disease... (Medical News Today)

Phase I Clinical Trial For An H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccine Shows Positive Results
IDRI (Infectious Disease Research Institute), a Seattle-based non-profit research organization that is a leading developer of adjuvants used in vaccines combating infectious disease, and Medicago Inc... (Medical News Today)

Bird Flu In China Spreading, 17 Dead
So far, 83 people have been confirmed infected with the H7N9 bird flu (avian flu) virus, of whom, 17 have died. In Shanghai alone, there have been 32 infections and 11 deaths, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Yesterday, the Director of the Shanghai CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) answered some questions that had been circulating in Shanghai... (Medical News Today)

Concern About New Bird Flu Strain Seen Adapting To Mammals, Humans
A genetic analysis of the avian flu virus responsible for at least nine human deaths in China portrays a virus evolving to adapt to human cells, raising concern about its potential to spark a new global flu pandemic... (Medical News Today)

H7N9 Bird Flu Infection Total Reaches 51, First Cases In Beijing and Henan Province, China
On Saturday and today, eight new human cases of H7N9 avian flu infection have been reported in China, including one in the capital Beijing, bringing the total so far this year to 51 - eleven of them have died... (Medical News Today)

Discovery That Small Genetic Changes Enable The H5N1 Bird Flu Virus To Replicate More Easily In The Noses Of Mammals Could Lead To Vaccine
So far there have only been isolated cases of bird flu in humans, and no widespread transmission as the H5N1 virus can't replicate efficiently in the nose... (Medical News Today)

Unusual Bird Flu Cases Baffle Experts, China
New cases of an unusual bird flu virus strain infection that is affecting humans is baffling experts. Chinese health authorities stepped up monitoring after four more confirmed cases of H7N9 bird flu were reported today, bringing the total so far to seven. The four new human infections have been reported in the Jiangsu Province, eastern China... (Medical News Today)

Unusual Bird Flu Virus Kills Two Men In China
Two men have died in Shanghai after being infected with the H7N9 bird flu virus strain, one that has never affected humans before, Chinese health authorities reported. The two patients were aged 87 and 27 years. The Xinhua News Agency reported that the younger man, surnamed Wu, became ill on February 19th, 2013 and died just over three weeks later on March 4th... (Medical News Today)

Newly Designed Vaccine Blocks H5 Avian Influenza In Animal Models
Until now most experimental vaccines against the highly lethal H5N1 avian influenza virus have lacked effectiveness. But a new vaccine has proven highly effective against the virus when tested in both mice and ferrets. It is also effective against the H9 subtype of avian influenza. The research is published online ahead of print in the Journal of Virology... (Medical News Today)

Technique To Predict Hotspots For Future Flu Outbreaks
This year's unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if bird flu became highly contagious among humans, which is why UCLA researchers and their colleagues are creating new ways to predict where an outbreak could emerge... (Medical News Today)

H5N1 Infection Of Mammals Enabled By Mutation Altering Stability Of Surface Molecule In Acid
A single mutation in the H5N1 avian influenza virus that affects the pH at which the hemagglutinin surface protein is activated simultaneously reduces its capacity to infect ducks and enhances its capacity to grow in mice according to research published ahead of print in the Journal of Virology... (Medical News Today)

Two New Documents To Guide Researchers In Carrying Out Dual Use Research Of Concern Released By The U.S. Government
First, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy today published a draft policy for public comment that proposes to formalize the roles and responsibilities of institutions and researchers when they are conducting certain types of research on specific pathogens and toxins... (Medical News Today)

Bird Flu Reported In German Poultry Farm
Initial tests confirm H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) infection in a duck farm in Brandenburg, eastern Germany, authorities announced today. Environment Ministry officials say that H5N1 was initially suspected when the poultry farm, which was carrying out its own tests, had positive results for avian influenza... (Medical News Today)

Carrier Oils
It is important to learn not only about the variety of essentials oils and their benefits, but also the way to properly combine them with a carrier oil before applying to the skin. Essential oils are concentrated and alone are very potent. Carrier oils carry essential oils to the skin safely. If essential oils are applied directly to the skin they can irritate it and have a negative effect instead of fulfilling their helpful, (aromatherapy-blends)

Aromatherapy in Labor and Delivery
The time has come. After nine months of anticipation you are standing at the door, suitcase at the ready, stopwatch in hand. You have timed the contractions at every two to five minutes on the dot, and as the drama of birth opens its curtains before your very eyes, you wonder if all your preparations will (aromatherapy-blends)

Aromatherapy in Pregnancy
Pregnancy and childbirth is the most wondrous experience of a womanâ€™s life. To describe it, one must use a list of contradictions. What other event can be so universal, yet so personal? At what other time does a woman feel more in tune with her feminine side, while yet tapping into her strongest reserve of raw power? What other rite of passage takes her to the very doors of death, only to open them and find new life? There is no other time when a woman can feel so sick while being in perfectly good health. There is no other even (aromatherapy-blends)

Aromatherapy Essential Oils
Properties of common ar (aromatherapy-blends)

Reiki The Energy Force
The Reiki system is not the only factor that determines how the body is attuned to the Reiki energy. The person giving a Reiki treatment also receives the healing effect of the energy as it flows thr (aromatherapy-blends)

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