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First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 21 mins ago - 3 reports

Mystery Illness Solved: Alabama Outbreak Is Mix Of Common Cold And Flu

The mystery illness in Alabama has been solved after two people were killed and seven hospitalized.Health officials worked this week to uncover the source of the disease that had taken hold in the state.They found that the mystery illness was really just ... [Published Inquisitr - 21 mins ago]

Entities: Common Cold, Influenza, Alabama Department of Public Health, Patient

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 31 mins ago - 4 reports

Research | Ferrets, pigs susceptible to H7N9 avian influenza virus

Chinese and U.S. scientists have used virus isolated from a person who died from H7N9 avian influenza infection to determine whether the virus could infect and be transmitted between ferrets.Ferrets are often used as a mammalian model in influenza research, ... [Published Big Medicine - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Ferret, Virus, H7N9

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 7 hours ago - 5 reports

Nanoparticles take us “on the road” to universal flu vaccine

A research team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US have published research in Nature that seems promising in bringing us closer towards the holy grail of a universal flu vaccine. The researchers designed self-assembling ... [Published Terrapinn - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Nanoparticle, Vaccine, Influenza A H1N1 Virus, Ferret, Gary Nabel

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 12 hours ago - 4 reports

Butler: New avian flu readily transmits in key animal model

Via Nature News & Comment, Declan Butler reports on the Zhu paper published online yesterday: New avian flu readily transmits in key animal model. Excerpt:The relative ease of spread between ferrets is in sharp contrast to what has been observed so far ... [Published H5N1 - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Ferret, Influenza, animal model, Malik Peiris, Bird Flu

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 12 hours ago - 10 reports

PRO/EDR> Undiagnosed illness - USA (02): (AL) respiratory, fatal, mixed infections

Swine Flu H1N1 — Worldwide/UnknownThe Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) and the Houston County Health Department have determined that the cause of a respiratory illness cluster in southeast Alabama was a combination of influenza A, rhinovirus ... [Published HealthMap Global Disease Alerts - 12 hours ago]

Entities: infections, Don Williamson, Rhinovirus, Alabama Department of Public Health

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 17 hours ago - 13 reports

H7N9 virus can transmit via air-borne exposure among mammals: research

HONG KONG, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The human-isolated avian influenza A (H7N9) virus can infect ferrets, the main mammal model for research into human influenza, and transmit from ferret-to-ferret via close contact and air-borne exposure, albeit the latter ... [Published Xinhua News Agency - 19 hours ago]

Entities: H7N9, Virus, Ferret, Hong Kong

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 4 reports

Emory University

Data on Influenza Vaccines Described by Researchers at Emory University

(NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Vaccine Weekly -- Researchers detail new data in Immunization and Public Health. According to news reporting originating from Atlanta, Georgia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Recent years ... [Published NewsRX - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Influenza, Emory University, Health Care, Influenza A H1N1 Virus

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 reports

Drug target to boost body's natural flu killer identified

A known difficulty in fighting influenza (flu) is the ability of the flu viruses to mutate and thus evade various medications that were previously found to be effective. ... [Published Business Standard India - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Influenza, Drugs, Virus

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

Minn. records more than 200 flu deaths this season

Health officials say Minnesota topped 200 influenza-related deaths this flu season. ... [Published Rochester Post Bulletin - May 24 2013]

Entities: Influenza

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 9 reports

Officials: Ala. 'mystery illness' situation solved

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) -After several days of worries that Alabama could be dealing with the outbreak of a potentially new illness, the Alabama Department of Public Health is confident they've solved the mystery.In a news conference held Thursday, Alabama ... [Published WSFA - May 23 2013]

Entities: Influenza, Don Williamson, Rhinovirus, Patient, Virus

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 14 reports

Preparing for a Flu Pandemic

It’s been called the forgotten pandemic, yet it happened less than a century ago. Many people are dimly aware of the 1918 flu pandemic, often called the Spanish flu, but few people grasp how truly consequential it was. It’s estimated to have killed 50 ... [Published PBS - May 23 2013]

Entities: Influenza, Pandemic, Virus

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 4 reports

Scientists Developing Lifetime 'Universal' Vaccine Against Influenza

Tara Brady, Daily MailA new type of vaccine has been developed which could provide long-term protection and last a lifetime against all types of influenza.The 'universal' vaccine targets part of the virus common to all strains, meaning it could provide ... [Published HappyNews.com - May 23 2013]

Entities: Vaccine, Influenza, Sanofi SA, Mutation

Quotes

"I have the biggest mental health system in the state" with 10,000 mentally ill inmates, he told a reporter

'Walk the Walk' raises awareness of mental illness [Published Chambersburg Public Opinion - 2 hours ago]

Claims that George deliberately threw himself from the vehicle have been shot down, with a pal telling The Mirror: "There is no mystery - he was just trying to shut the door. George has been perfectly happy and is in a great place. To insinuate that he threw himself out of the car is absurd."

BLOGS OF THE DAY: Morgan nods off during talk show [Published Mail Online UK - 3 hours ago]

"It's a very nice place where there are lots of other dogs to play with and all sorts of good treats to eat. Charlie will be very happy there."

Renee Moilanen: Confronting death through the eyes of a child [Published Daily Breeze - 8 hours ago]

...Richard Besser, chief health and medical editor for ABC News. "The first cases of the next SARS or the next flu pandemic could look very much like this. You treat every one of these clusters the same: You attack it with rapid public healthhealth science."

Mystery illness solved in Alabama [Published UPI - 8 hours ago]

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Robarge seeks help for debilitating condition [Published Dalles Chronicle - 7 hours ago]
Nanoparticles take us “on the road” to universa... [Published Terrapinn - 7 hours ago]
Renee Moilanen: Confronting death through the e... [Published Daily Breeze - 8 hours ago]
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Ray Chambers: The Most Important Doctor in the ... [Published Huffington Post - 8 hours ago]
CDC: U.S. influenza season almost over [Published Individual.com - 8 hours ago]
Mystery illness solved in Alabama [Published UPI - 8 hours ago]
Class action starts on horse flu handling [Published Rural Weekly - 8 hours ago]
Opinion: NCLB waiver a victory for Alaska [Published Bristol Bay Times - 8 hours ago]
H7N9 animal model looks at transmission of H7N9... [Published Brightsurf Science News - 8 hours ago]
H7N9 virus ‘may be capable’ of human-to-human t... [Published Today Online - 9 hours ago]

Blogs

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WHA on pandemic influenza preparedness [Published H5N1 - 11 hours ago] Via WHO, today's Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly: daily notes on proceedings offer a number of important statements and documents. Among them is Item 15.2, on pandemic influenza preparedness:This is the first annual report of the pandemic influenza ...
Eurosurveillance: Point-of-care tests for H7N9 [Published H5N1 - 13 hours ago] Via Eurosurveillance: A comparison of rapid point-of-care tests for the detection of avian influenza A(H7N9) virus, 2013. The abstract:Six antigen detection-based rapid influenza point-of-care tests were compared for their ability to detect avian influenza ...
Nanoparticle Flu Vaccine [Published About.com Biotech / Biomedical - 14 hours ago] Researchers from the Nabel laboratory at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) developed a synthetic nanoparticle flu vaccine that showed much higher effectiveness in both mice and ferrets compared with the standard seasonal ...
Influenza season 2012-2013 is over in Europe [Published ECDC News - 14 hours ago] ECDC_Abstract: For four consecutive weeks, all reporting European countries have experienced low-intensity influenza activity. This marks the end of the influenza season 2012-2013 in Europe. ECDC_ArticleDate/Deadline: 24/05/2013 00:00 ...
Butler: New avian flu readily transmits in key ... [Published H5N1 - 14 hours ago] Via Nature News & Comment, Declan Butler reports on the Zhu paper published online yesterday: New avian flu readily transmits in key animal model. Excerpt:The relative ease of spread between ferrets is in sharp contrast to what has been observed so far ...

Audio/Video

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Chapman College - Flu: From Bench to Palooza [Published Vanderbilt University - YouTube - May 23 2013]
CDC Laboratory Works on H7N9 [Published CDC Streaming Health - YouTube - May 07 2013]
China bird flu spurs drive for universal vaccine [Published Reuters Video: Technology - Apr 25 2013]
China bird flu spurs drive for universal vaccine [Published Reuters Video: Business - Apr 25 2013]
China culls birds as flu deaths mount [Published Reuters Video: Top News - Apr 05 2013]

Press Releases

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Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals Segment Poise... [Published PR Newswire - May 23 2013]