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Antibody vaccine may be key to conquering flu
A key breakthrough in flu vaccine research has been attracting considerable attention in recent days. As we reported earlier in FierceBioResearcher, antibodies may prove to be a very effective guard
China stockpiles bird flu vax for possible outbreak
Amid concerns of a possible human bird flu outbreak, China's Food and Drug Administration announced that the state has already begun building stockpiles of the human bird flu vaccine Panflu as a
Officials warn of pandemic as public loses interest
Top researchers and government officials met this week to sound the alarm, once again, over the threat of a possible bird flu pandemic. Unlike years past, though, they say that their message is
Bird flu vaccine for poultry headed for 'total failure'
An outbreak of bird flu at a Hong Kong poultry farm is raising concerns as some of the birds that died had been vaccinated against the virus. That's an alarming sign that the vaccine may be losing
Pre-priming cuts response time to bird flu jab
There's more evidence that pre-priming a population with avian flu jabs would help countries mount a rapid response to any outbreak in the future. A group of British researchers tested the approach
Novartis: Data supports pre-pandemic vax campaign
Investigators are touting new data that shows Novartis' pre-pandemic flu vaccine Aflunov can deliver swift protection to people primed with the MF59-adjuvanted vaccine up to six years earlier. Those
Novartis: Data supports pre-pandemic vaccinations
Novartis is touting new data showing that a single jab of one of its vaccines induced a protective antibody response in patients who had already been vaccinated as much as six years earlier. The
Cell-based pandemic vaccine successful in human trial
Baxter International says that a human trial of its Celvapan bird flu vaccine demonstrated that it spurred an immune response against three strains of the lethal virus. This is the first time that
WHO warns of rising bird flu pandemic risk
The headlines may have died down in recent months, but bird flu experts say that the threat of a global pandemic has actually been growing. The World Health Organization outlined the spread of the
ALSO NOTED: Shire nabs orphan product; New prez at Cell Therapeutics; and much more...
> Shire has acquired arylsulfatase, an orphan enzyme replacement therapy in Phase I/II for Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, from the Danish company Zymenex.
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