The complexity of the spread of flu virus
Seasonal flu is a multicolored tapestry.Posted on September 5, 2008 7:48 AM • 2 Comments •
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biology:
Antibodies from survivors of 1918 era pandemic
Fascinating paper on harvesting antibodies produced by a 90 year old pandemic.Posted on August 19, 2008 6:54 AM • 14 Comments •
More about the adapting bird flu viruses
Both more and less than meets the eye.Posted on May 28, 2008 11:31 AM • 7 Comments •
Naming a bird flu virus
Politically correct terminology.Posted on April 25, 2008 7:07 AM • 5 Comments •
Important new flu paper in Cell: part III
Oxidative stress, SARS and H5N1Posted on April 24, 2008 7:21 AM • 7 Comments •
Important new flu paper in Cell: part II
Paying the Toll-like receptor.Posted on April 23, 2008 7:18 AM • 2 Comments •
Important new flu paper in Cell: part I
For Whom the Toll receives.Posted on April 22, 2008 7:13 AM • 3 Comments •
Vagrant birds and bird flu
Wrong-way Corrigan's of the bird world and bird fluPosted on April 11, 2008 7:45 AM • 0 Comments •
Dead ducks, live ducks and bird flu [updated]
Not all ducks are the same when it comes to bird flu.Posted on March 28, 2008 6:07 AM • 4 Comments •
What's up with H5N1 in civets in Vietnam?
How and why did Owlston's palm civets get bird flu?Posted on March 13, 2008 7:43 AM • 3 Comments •
Good bird flu primer
Short video with bird flu basics.Posted on March 5, 2008 7:52 AM • 9 Comments •
Bird flu, mosquitoes and blowflies
A notice from ProMed yesterday alerted many of us to a new published report [subscription firewall] about H5N1 influenza detection in an arthropod species in the vicinity of an infected poultry farm. The arthropods were mosquitoes (Culex tritaeniorhynchus) in Thailand....Posted on February 21, 2008 7:03 AM • 5 Comments •
Virus preference for humans and birds in the 1918 virus
The long and the short of the glycan hypothesis.Posted on February 20, 2008 7:35 AM • 9 Comments •
Bird flu and arsenic
Is there an interaction between this toxic metal and the bird flu infection?Posted on February 6, 2008 7:03 AM • 15 Comments •
Tamiflu resistance in seasonal flu: the devil is in the details
No surprise. It's more complicated than we might think.Posted on January 29, 2008 7:26 AM • 43 Comments •
The clinical bird flu picture so far as reviewed in the New England Journal
Who dies and of what?Posted on January 18, 2008 7:45 AM • 11 Comments •
Does H5N1 spread from cats to dogs and vice versa?
Dogs and cats can be infected with H5N1. Can they infect each other?Posted on January 16, 2008 7:50 AM • 2 Comments •
Bird flu, umbrellas and cones
A new paper on what makes an flu virus prefer one host or cell over another.Posted on January 8, 2008 7:43 AM • 14 Comments •
Pandemic influenza subtypes: end of the year musings
Influenza pandemics happen. But which subtype will it be?Posted on December 31, 2007 7:45 AM • 44 Comments •
Now I'm the one complaining about WHO (again)
Wherein I give the WHO spokesperson a biology lesson.Posted on December 30, 2007 4:03 PM • 14 Comments •
The mutated influenza pig virus story
On the swine influenza H2N3 reassortant paper in PNAS.Posted on December 23, 2007 4:06 PM • 4 Comments •
Birds, bird flu, bird brains and scientists behaving badly
A Nature Commentary that makes sense and is a Call to Action. Again.Posted on December 10, 2007 7:41 AM • 11 Comments •
Genetically fit oseltamivir resistant H5N1 mutants
Genetically fit Tamiflu resistant strains exist. Too bad.Posted on November 8, 2007 7:23 AM • 10 Comments •
How is a dog like a bird?
If you've heard of the disease distemper it may be because you had to get your dog vaccinated against it. Dog or canine distemper is caused by a measles-like virus, Canine Distemper Virus, but it doesn't just affect dogs. It...Posted on October 29, 2007 8:00 AM • 4 Comments •
Flu biology: receptors, II
Bird flu receptors all over the human body. Hmmm.Posted on October 17, 2007 7:22 AM • 8 Comments •
Flu biology: receptors, I
Where in our bodies are the receptors for bird flu virus? Part I.Posted on October 16, 2007 5:22 AM • 4 Comments •
A flu virus protein that promotes secondary bacterial infection
The PB1-F2 protein. Interesting.Posted on October 12, 2007 7:07 AM • 17 Comments •
H5N1 infection in sparrows, starlings and pigeons
Research team starts to characterize susceptibility in small land based birds.Posted on October 10, 2007 7:56 AM • 15 Comments •
Paper on mutation that enhances infection of upper airways
Mutation E627K in PB2 affects ability of H5N2 to infect upper airways in micePosted on October 6, 2007 7:26 AM • 22 Comments •
The Super Sentinel Chicken
Turning a chicken into a canary.Posted on September 19, 2007 7:25 AM • 6 Comments •
Flying blind into the cytokine storm
Know what you are doing before you do it.Posted on August 16, 2007 7:19 AM • 16 Comments •
Figuring out how flu gets around
The problem of how flu "gets around" is still a problem.Posted on July 31, 2007 7:35 AM • 18 Comments •
Cytokine storm revisited
An interesting experiment. But does it mean what it is being taken to mean?Posted on July 18, 2007 7:07 AM • 31 Comments •
How long do we shed flu virus?
It seems we shed virus longer than we thought.Posted on July 10, 2007 7:11 AM • 7 Comments •
Mild bird flu: no news is bad news
Where are the "missing" bird flu cases?Posted on June 25, 2007 7:04 AM • 13 Comments •
Not All in our Genes, The Sequel
Is the apparent clustering of bird flu cases in blood relatives only apparent?Posted on June 6, 2007 7:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Do veterinarians catch influenza from their patients?
Apparently they do.Posted on June 4, 2007 7:21 AM • 16 Comments •
To every flu there is a season. But why?
Why is flu "seasonal"?Posted on May 21, 2007 7:26 AM • 50 Comments •
Flu in the kitchen store
What my book fetish has to do with cell surface receptors.Posted on April 9, 2007 6:50 AM • 4 Comments •
A paper on cytokine storm
What's the mechanism of this deadly immune system overreaction?Posted on March 1, 2007 7:40 AM • 3 Comments •
Transmissibility in the 1918 flu virus
Two small change turn a non-transmissible (but virulent) flu virus into a highly transmissible one.Posted on February 2, 2007 7:29 AM • 13 Comments •
Letting the H5N1 cat out of the bag
Asymptomatic cats infected with H5N1 in Austria.Posted on January 22, 2007 7:03 AM • 9 Comments •
Tamiflu resistance: digging under the headline
Sometimes it sounds like spin but isn't.Posted on January 19, 2007 7:11 AM • 46 Comments •
Infecting monkeys with 1918 pandemic flu virus
What can we learn from this potentially dangerous experiment?Posted on January 18, 2007 7:15 AM • 17 Comments •
Pigeons and cats. New ecological niche for H5N1?
More reports of H5N1 in pigeons and cats. Is this a possible endemic reservoir for cities?Posted on January 17, 2007 7:18 AM • 12 Comments •
Another H5N1 paper that tells us what we thought we knew was wrong
H5N1 can infect the upper respiratory tract. What does this mean?Posted on January 12, 2007 7:09 AM • 21 Comments •
H3 and H1 evolution
The "normal" flu virus is pretty mysterious, too.Posted on January 5, 2007 7:54 AM • 9 Comments •
Where to sample birds and some more stuff
Virus more prevalent in the upper airway than feces of birds.Posted on December 13, 2006 7:22 AM • 13 Comments •
Structure of influenza NP protein determined
Nucleoprotein (NP) is needed for the influenza virus to replicate. We now know what it looks like and it is interesting.Posted on December 11, 2006 7:38 AM • 2 Comments •
Another "big" H5N1 science paper
New Nature paper. Old story.Posted on November 17, 2006 7:05 AM • 13 Comments •
How does flu spread?
If you know, tell me.Posted on November 13, 2006 7:39 AM • 19 Comments •
New paper on H5N1 virulence gene
Some new and interesting information on how H5N1 became more virulent to chickens.Posted on November 8, 2006 7:44 AM • 3 Comments •
Bird flu virulence: come what may
Scientists admit they don't have a clue how bad bird flu could be.Posted on November 6, 2006 7:19 AM • 34 Comments •
Not all in our genes
Unraveling genetic factors and bird flu.Posted on November 5, 2006 6:02 PM • 17 Comments •
Influenza virus, science background IV
Conclusion of the series on influenza surface proteinsPosted on November 2, 2006 7:57 AM • 8 Comments •
Sparrows, new strain: bad news?
H5N1 is in sparrows and a new prevalent strain has been found in poultry in China.Posted on November 1, 2006 6:24 PM • 15 Comments •
Influenza virus, science background, III
MOre on viral receptors in influenza.Posted on November 1, 2006 7:36 AM • 3 Comments •
Influenza virus, science background, II
Some terminology for understanding influenza virus receptors.Posted on October 31, 2006 7:41 AM • 5 Comments •
Influenza virus, science background, I.
Updated post from the archives on influenza science. First of four.Posted on October 30, 2006 7:04 AM • 8 Comments •
Another "breakthrough" story on preventing flu
Using Defective Interfering viruses as an autovaccine for flu. Not so fast.Posted on October 16, 2006 7:26 AM • 14 Comments •
A cautionary tale about cytokine storm
How a drug to treat an overactive immune system went wrong.Posted on October 11, 2006 7:43 AM • 31 Comments •
The Nature paper on the 1918 virus and immune reaction
The 1918 influenza virus induces pro-inflammatory and cell death responses in mice.Posted on September 29, 2006 7:13 AM • 24 Comments •
Must H5N1 moderate its virulence as it evolves?
On the surprising evolutionary dynamics of virulence.Posted on September 19, 2006 7:16 AM • 29 Comments •
Wanted: leadership in public health
Flu sequence sharing. Leadership still needed.Posted on August 25, 2006 7:18 AM • 31 Comments •
Important new initiative on sequences
Scientists agree to a new sequence sharing collaboration.Posted on August 24, 2006 10:00 AM • 5 Comments •
CDC unfreezes US flu isolates
CDC thaws out some flu sequencesPosted on August 23, 2006 7:05 AM • 26 Comments •
Increasing genetic diversity in H5N1
Changes in the virus suggest we need to adjust vaccine strategy.Posted on August 19, 2006 8:15 AM • 15 Comments •