H5N1 stands for avian Influenza‚ a kind of pandemics. Birds and poultry can get affected and transmit it to each other. Then it would infect human who attached to them and cause problem to their respiratory tract. Symptoms of avian influenza are cough‚ headache‚ nausea‚ diarrhea and even pneumonia or encephalitis. 60% of infected people died and most of them are the young adults between 10 to 19 and the old. It used to cause a huge problem for most of the countries in Asia. The essay is about the
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In the Name of God Biotechnology MSc. Seminar: Current issues in production of Shikimic Acid‚ intermediate for the production of Oseltamivir‚ the Avian Flu drug Supervised by: Dr. Reza Yegani Dr. Mohammad Hossein Sarrafzadeh Mr. Habibollah Ramezanzade by: Kaveh Yazdifard Presented on: 1385/10/3 Contents Acknowledgement Introduction Shikimic Acid & its Natural Properties Derivatives of Shikimic Acid Avian Flu Sickness‚ Medications Oseltamivir and Shikimic Acid’s Role
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reports approximately one in three people or 36% (97.9 million) people in the United States are at risk for being infected with influenza. Historically the mortality and morbidity rate of influenza has been low with the exception of the influenza pandemic in 2009. (CDC‚
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Allergy and Infectious Diseases stated that the “seasonal influenza sickens millions and cause thousands of hospitalizations and flu-related deaths” each year (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). Influenza started in 1918. The pandemic flu from 1918 was so deadly that “in many of the victims‚ the influenza virus has invaded their lungs and caused pneumonia” (History). The flu “was first observed in Europe‚ the U.S. and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world” (History)
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research may be beneficial for finding vaccines and antiviral drugs to combat the virus. There is one point on which the factions agree: The ability of a virus to spread easily from person to person is the key to determining whether it can cause a pandemic (McNeil & Grady‚ 2012). The main risk factor for catching bird flu is working at a chicken farm or a live bird market (McNeil & Grady‚ 2012). According to McNeil & Grady‚ (2012)‚ “The rare cases of apparent human-to-human transmission
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The Flu Vaccine Administration Task Force In the wake of the 2004-2005 flu vaccine shortage‚ we are convening a federal task force to develop a strategy plan for addressing the issues presented in this case. What are the key problems or issues that has caused such shortage? 2. What are the market and non-market forces contributing to the previous shortages? 3. What are the social values the Federal government should protect? State government should protect? Are there alternatives
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prevent HIV infection. This situation persists even though the world has agreed that young people have the human right to education‚ information and services that could protect them from harm. Young people are disproportionately affected in the HIV pandemic. They face the economic and social impact of HIV/AIDS on families‚ communities‚ and nations‚ and they must be at the centre of prevention actions. Where young people are well informed of HIV risks and prevention strategies‚ they are changing their
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Visiting Sr. Research Scientist May 1998 to Dec 1999 Merck and Co. - West Point‚ PA Studied guinea pig’s immune response which produces a very robust T cell response‚ like humans‚ against intracellular pathogens. My duties were to develop guinea pig reagents‚ which are lacking‚ to do molecular immunological studies in the guinea pig animal model in pre-clinical vaccine development. Performed early development work on vaccines to Haemophilus influenza‚ Moraxella catarrhalis
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flu each year is on average around 20%. Over 200‚000 people are hospitalized each year due to the flu. In 2009‚ influenza was the eighth leading cause of death for men in the U.S. During 2009 and 2010 the H1N1 or swine flu caused the first flu pandemic in 40 years causing 12‚000 deaths according to Webmd. B. Many people think that flu shots are not important each year but what they don’t know is that the number of deaths each year from influenza keep rising. You may think that
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The Spanish Flu of 1918 was an influenza that swept the globe killing more people then World War One‚ World War Two‚ the Korean War‚ and the Vietnam War combined. The virus’s victims were between the ages of nineteen and twenty eight‚ an unusual range compared to expected ages of deaths from a normal flu. The Forsete‚ a ship that set sail from Norway’s northern coast‚ was hit with an outbreak of the Spanish Flu on September 21‚ 1918. Within the next two weeks‚ seven people died‚ and were buried in
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