DNA vaccination for avian flu created (Moldova.org) U.S. scientists say they've developed a potential way to use DNA to vaccinate against avian flu, allowing rapid mobilization during an epidemic.Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine said they used vaccine via DNA constructed to build antigens against flu, along with a tiny electric pulse, to immunize experimental animals against various strains of the bird-flu ... [News Source]

DNA vaccination for avian flu created (UPI) PHILADELPHIA, July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've developed a potential way to use DNA to vaccinate against avian flu, allowing rapid mobilization during an epidemic. [News Source]

Homeless die in Poland of bird-flu vaccine (Moldova.org) Twenty-one homeless individuals in Poland have died after being given an unproven bird-flu virus vaccine, authorities have charged.Prosecutors have accused three doctors and six nurses of misleading the homeless individuals by telling them they were being given a new influenza vaccine rather than a vaccine for the H5N1 bird-flu virus, The Daily Telegraph said Thursday.Polish Health Minister Ewa ... [News Source]

Potential New Drug Candidates To Combat ‘Bird Flu’ Identified By UC San Diego Researchers (Medical News Today) As the specter of a worldwide outbreak of avian or "bird flu" lingers, health officials recognize that new drugs are desperately needed since some strains of the virus already have developed resistance to the current roster of anti-flu remedies. [News Source]

Two dozen new drug candidates to combat ‘bird flu’ identified (New Kerala) Washington, July 3 : Scientists at the University of California, San Diego claim to have isolated more than two dozen promising and novel compounds from which new "designer drugs" might be developed to combat Avian flu. [News Source]