IDNR to participate in avian influenza study (The Canton Daily Ledger) I was thinking the other day that I hadn't heard much about the avian influenza (bird flu) lately. It was just a short time ago that the flu epidemic found in other countries worked its way into North America. It was actually a pretty good scare. TV press officials began showing some horrible scenes on what was happening in these other countries and then telling us that it just might find its ... [News Source]

Studies Of How SARS And Bird Flu Evade Antiviral Responses Funded By NIAID (Medical News Today) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a contract to the University of Washington (UW) to use systems biology approaches to comprehensively analyze and model the virus-host interactions and cellular response networks that are induced or altered during the course of acute respiratory virus infection. [News Source]