Tag Archives: H5N1

Christmas tree – natural source of main ingradient in Tamiflu?

Nilmini Gedivinne and her colleagues at the University of Maine in Orono discovered that some evergreen leaves bristle with shikimic acid the starter ingredient of the anti-flu medicine Tamiflu. No more shortage of Tamiflu like it happened in 2005?

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Very small window for migratory birds to spread H5N1

Satellite data reveals a very small window of 5 to 15 days for bird flu virus to spread distances over 500Km. Research published in British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology reveals why the global spread of bird flu by … Continue reading

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Bird flu coming back?

The dreaded H5N1 is not completely gone. While WHO declared H1N1 pandemic over, there are other forms of flu viruses that are lying dormant and can raise their ugly heads. Webster, chairman of the virology and molecular biology department at St. … Continue reading

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