No H5N1 Pandemic
From the February 29 2008 issue of Science comes yet another article on the H5N1 strain of influenza virus. This is the strain that is quite virulent in birds, and…
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Google flu – the research article
The article which describes the use of search engine data to predict influenza epidemics, discussed previously on this blog, was published today in the journal Nature. The title of the…
Discovery of viruses
…-Frederik Twort, Felix D’Herelle 1931 – Swine influenza virus (Shope) 1933 – Human influenza virus (Smith) The name virus was coined from the Latin word meaning slimy liquid or poison….
TWiV #15: Deer mice, Spanish flu, measles, antiviral resistance
…influenza virus replicates in the lower respiratory tract, measles in Europe, and the growing resistance of influenza virus to antivirals. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download…
Hantavirus N protein strikes again
…a conclusion consistent with previous experimental results. A recent report indicates that influenza mRNA translation does not require eIF4E. Because influenza mRNA synthesis is also primed with capped oligonucleotides, the…
influenza-ha
Influenza virus HA, the target of neutralizing antibodies