http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Switzerland's Cytos Biotechnology AG today announced that the first healthy volunteer has been dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial with their H1N1 influenza vaccine candidate based on Cytos' proprietary bacteriophage Qbeta virus-like particle (VLP) technology. In this first Phase 1 clinical trial, the safety and immunogenicity of this novel vaccine candidate and its potential to protect against H1N1 influenza infection will be evaluated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-influenza-vaccine-brought-clinical.html Medications Fri, 17 May 2013 10:53:37 EST news288006797 (Medical Xpress)—As the bird flu outbreak in China worsens, a Purdue University expert is working on vaccines that offer broader protection against multiple strains of the virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-bird-flu-expert-vaccine-multiple.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 10 May 2013 07:30:01 EST news287388846 The death toll from the H7N9 bird flu outbreak in China has risen to 31, according to official figures, with four more people dying of the virus in China's eastern provinces. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-china-deaths-bird-flu-cases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 07 May 2013 04:56:08 EST news287121363 A World Health Organisation team was due Monday to wrap up a trip to Shanghai, centre of China's bird flu outbreak which has killed 20 people, as part of an investigation into how the virus is spreading. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-team-probes-bird-flu-shanghai.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:41:47 EST news285831696 (AP)—South African officials say they have detected bird flu on an ostrich farm but that it is unrelated to the strain that has killed eight people in China. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-safrica-h7n1-bird-flu-ostrich.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:50:48 EST news284745042 China's bird flu outbreak is "devastating" poultry sales, an industry group said Tuesday, as the H7N9 virus which has killed seven people triggered a new food safety scare. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-china-bird-flu-outbreak-spurs.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:20:03 EST news284701958 (AP)—Mexico's animal health agency says a bird flu outbreak at seven farms in central Mexico has affected as many as 582,000 chickens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-mexico-bird-flu-outbreak-chickens.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:24:26 EST news280200250 Bangladesh's livestock authorities are slaughtering around 150,000 chickens at a giant poultry farm near Dhaka after the worst outbreak of avian flu in five years, officials said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-bangladesh-slaughters-birds-avian-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:12:46 EST news275717547 Eight million chickens have so far been slaughtered in Mexico and 66 million more were vaccinated in a bid to contain a bird flu outbreak in the west of the country, authorities said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-mexico-mn-chickens-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:43:56 EST news263616229 Officials have slain 2.5 million birds at poultry farms in western Mexico over the past three weeks in an attempt to contain a bird flu outbreak, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-mexico-million-poultry-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:26:30 EST news261195979 The Mexican government declared a national animal health emergency on Monday in the face of an aggressive bird flu epidemic that has infected nearly 1.7 million poultry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-mexico-declares-bird-flu-emergency.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:52:57 EST news260473965 Vietnam may have contained the fatal bird flu outbreak that raged in the late 2000s but it is still struggling with new cases of the disease that have puzzled experts in the communist country. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-vietnam-lingering-bird-flu-threat.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 31 Mar 2012 05:53:28 EST news252391995 The World Health Organisation on Wednesday nominated its current chief Margaret Chan for a second term at the head of the UN agency. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-current-chan-term.html Health Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:10:01 EST news246096134 Vietnam has culled more than 2,500 chickens from a farm in the Mekong Delta area in an effort to contain a bird flu outbreak, officials said Thursday, amid heightened fears about the virus in the region. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-vietnam-culls-chickens-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:20:01 EST news244959368