Stories indexed under: Influenza

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  • Scientists find mutations that let bird flu adapt to humans Nov. 15, 2006 By comparing influenza viruses found in birds with those of the avian virus that have also infected human hosts, researchers have identified key genetic changes required for pandemic strains of bird flu.
  • New drug blocks influenza, including bird flu virus Oct. 4, 2006 Opening a new front in the war against flu, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have reported the discovery of a novel compound that confers broad protection against influenza viruses, including deadly avian influenza.
  • Conference to advise businesses on pandemic preparation Sept. 14, 2006 A University of Wisconsin-Madison conference on Thursday, Oct. 12, "Surviving the Pandemic," is designed to help representatives from small- and medium-sized companies and nonprofit organizations assess their levels of preparedness and begin to develop their own company-specific plans.
  • Badgerland presence at BIO 2006 April 6, 2006 Following Monday's blockbuster announcement of a $150 million public-private investment in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will have considerable momentum as it vies for attention at BIO 2006 this weekend in Chicago.
  • Cell barrier slows bird flu's spread among humans March 22, 2006 Although more than 100 people have been infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus, mostly from close contact with infected poultry, the fact that the virus does not spread easily from its pioneering human hosts to other humans has been a biomedical puzzle.
  • UW scientists unravel mystery of how flu viruses replicate Jan. 25, 2006 With the help of a long-studied flu virus, an electron microscope and a novel idea of how the virus aligns segments of RNA as it prepares to make virions, the particles a virus creates and sends forth to infect cells, one major puzzle of flu virus replication has been resolved.
  • Tracking a case study for avian flu preparedness Dec. 6, 2005 As public health experts discuss how best to prevent an avian flu epidemic in the United States, La Follette School of Public Affairs assistant professor Donald P. Moynihan says a recent avian disease outreak offers important clues.
  • Scientists report a new method to speed bird flu vaccine production Oct. 31, 2005 In the event of an influenza pandemic, the world's vaccine manufacturers will be in a race against time to forestall calamity. But now, thanks to a new technique to more efficiently produce the disarmed viruses that are the seed stock for making flu vaccine in large quantities, life-saving inoculations may be available more readily than before. The work is especially important as governments worldwide prepare for a predicted pandemic of avian influenza.
  • Flu virus reported to resist drug envisioned for pandemic Oct. 14, 2005 An avian influenza virus isolated from an infected Vietnamese girl has been determined to be resistant to the drug oseltamivir, the compound better known by its trade name Tamiflu, and the drug officials hope will serve as the front line of defense for a feared influenza pandemic.
  • Researchers studying ramifications of equine influenza in dogs Sept. 26, 2005 A paper published in Science today (Sept. 26) describes the recent emergence of equine influenza virus, first recognized in racing greyhounds in January 2004, as a pathogen in dogs. During the past year, cases of the virus have been reported in pet dogs in Florida and New York, which raises concern that the virus is spreading.
  • Gene from 1918 virus proves key to virulent influenza Oct. 6, 2004 Using a gene resurrected from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, recorded history's most lethal outbreak of infectious disease, scientists have found that a single gene may have been responsible for the devastating virulence of the virus.
  • Study of flu patients reveals virus outsmarting key drug Aug. 26, 2004 A drug envisioned as a front-line defense for the next flu pandemic might have a genetic Achilles' heel that results in a drug-resistant influenza virus capable of infecting new human hosts, according to a study published Aug. 28 in the British medical journal The Lancet.
  • Scientists solve puzzle of how influenza builds its infectious seeds Jan. 27, 2003 By solving a long-standing puzzle about how the influenza virus assembles its genetic contents into infectious particles that enable the virus to spread from cell to cell, scientists have opened a new gateway to a better understanding of one of the world's most virulent diseases.
  • With a tweak, flu virus is a killer Sept. 6, 2001 By incorporating the slightest change in the arrangement of its molecules, the virus responsible for a brief but frightening influenza outbreak in Hong Kong several years ago can quickly morph from a relatively benign virus to a killer.
  • New technique can create flu viruses Aug. 3, 1999 A research team has perfected a method for creating designer influenza viruses, which can be tailor-made to solve mysteries about how flu strains mutate, spread and cause illness.
  • UW Virologists Track New Influenza Threat Dec. 22, 1997 UW-Madison influenza experts will conduct a detailed surveillance next month of the dangerous strain of influenza that has infected eight people and killed three in Hong Kong.