Indonesia: H5N1 sample on its way to WHO
Robert Roos News Editor


Aug 17, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – Indonesian officials said today they have sent a sample from a recent victim of H5N1 influenza to the World Health Organization (WHO), apparently ending the country's prolonged withholding of H5N1 samples.


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Antigen Sparing Adjuvant Strategy Might Increase Avian Flu Vaccine Production
( Medical News Today )

There is a strategy which could significantly boost the production of the avian influenza vaccine, allowing many more people to be vaccinated, according to an article in The Lancet. Professor Geert Leroux-Roels, Centre for Vaccinology, Ghent University and Hospital, Belgium and team said that if they combine the vaccine with an oil-in-water emulsion (adjudant) the body is able to produce six times as many avian flu neutralizing antibodies, compared to what the body can produce with a non-adjuvanted vaccine with an identical dose.

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Indonesia reports another H5N1 death

Aug 16, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – For the second time in 4 days, Indonesia's health ministry today announced a fatal human case of H5N1 avian influenza, this one in a 17-year-old girl from a town just west of Jakarta who died Aug 14

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Vietnam finds bird flu in poultry near China
Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:04AM IST

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has detected a bird flu outbreak in the northern province of Cao Bang bordering China, the country's second infection among poultry so far this month, the Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday.

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