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littlepeaks
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Singapore scientists, working at Bioinformatics Institute (BII), conducted and completed research in just two weeks to develop a new 3-D structural model of H1N1 protein. The article is available here.
----------------------------------------BII's interactive 3D model is available at the following link: http://mendel.bii.a-star.edu.sg/SEQUENCES/H1N1/ (Jmol) -- requires Java. [Edit 1 times, last edit by littlepeaks at Jun 3, 2009 3:35:16 AM] |
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Sekerob
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News as News, no news on the frantic research, the WHO declared formally a condition 6, Pandemic for Swine Flu aka Mexican Flu aka New Influenza A.
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Sekerob
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More news, good news on the heels of the Condition 6 announcement by the WHO. A first batch of vaccine was produced
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Yet another new flu virus emerges in Canada
Hogs may have transmitted virus to workers Canadian officials said on Tuesday they had identified yet another new flu virus, this one a mixture of human and swine influenzas, in two farm workers in Western Canada. The new virus did not make the two workers seriously ill and is not related to the current H1N1 pandemic influenza strain, the Public Health Agency of Canada said. The two workers, both employees at a hog barn operation in the province of Saskatchewan, have fully recovered. A third case is under investigation---. |
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fkehoetx
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Did anyone else pick up on the note that drug-resistant Flu is now appearing? And further that the vaccine for the latest swine variety will be delayed due to problems with propagating the virus? This research could be critical and lifesaving based upon these facts!
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Sekerob
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The WHO said that the cases of H1N1 related flu can no longer be tracked and counted. 429 of the currently known 94,000 cases have ended in fatality, data as at July 6.
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Don't be fooled by the relatively mild symptoms for most people who have caught the present strain of H1N1. This flu is showing very disturbing similarities to the 1918 pandemic strain. Specifically it seems to be hitting young people harder than older people just as in 1918.
The 1918 flu came in two waves, the first in the Spring and Summer was mild like this one. It faded away only to roar back later in the year to kill millions. We haven't hit this stage yet but be warned if it happened in 1918 it can happen now |
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AnRM
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That's a scary thought....
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nasher
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Don't be fooled by the relatively mild symptoms for most people who have caught the present strain of H1N1. This flu is showing very disturbing similarities to the 1918 pandemic strain. Specifically it seems to be hitting young people harder than older people just as in 1918. The 1918 flu came in two waves, the first in the Spring and Summer was mild like this one. It faded away only to roar back later in the year to kill millions. We haven't hit this stage yet but be warned if it happened in 1918 it can happen now the question i have is it anything like the 1918 flu or is it just that this one came out a simalar time of the year and have mild symptoms for most people? also i know medical sciance has improved since 1918...  |
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Apocalypse Not: Behind the Swine Flu Hysteria
At the height of the swine flu pandemic this spring, when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was recommending that schools with cases of H1N1 be closed for 14 days and Mexico was still on lockdown, the epidemiology community already suspected the world wasn't ending. Why? The numbers came in: case fatality rate (how many infected people are dying) and replication rate (how many others an infected person will transmit the illness to — "R-zero," in disease-speak). H1N1 had an RØ of about 1.3, high enough to spread the virus but low enough that a strong isolation program could break its back. Its case fatality rate was a wussy 1.9 percent in Mexico and 0.1 percent worldwide. By comparison, the 1918 Spanish flu had an RØ of 2.7 and a case fatality rate of up to 5 percent, making it far more deadly. A real apocalypse, like the killer flu in The Stand — Stephen King's opus of epidemiologic eschatology — would be off the chart, with an RØ of 5 to 6 and a case fatality rate of 99 percent. So, don't panic ... unless H1N1 surges this fall. Where did we leave that hand sanitizer, again?--- See the maps |
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