A thick fog of false alarms, dead birds and hot air (The Scotsman) A FEW years ago the BBC's 10 o'clock news was presented from Cellardyke in Fife. It was the time when we were all threatened with a pandemic caused by bird flu and a [News Source]

UNICEF to launch awareness campaign on A/H1N1 flu in Nepali schools (People’s Daily) With a view to inform the schoolchildren of the menace of pandemic influenza A/H1N1, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Nepal has embarked on an awareness campaign in different schools under the Avian Influenza Project (AIP). The move follows recent A/H1N1 flu-scare throughout the nation. After the initial phase of campaign in the capital Kathmandu Valley schools, UNICEF is launching ... [News Source]

‘Rational Drug Design’ Identifies Fragments Of FDA-Approved Drugs Relevant To Emerging Viruses (Medical News Today) A massive, data-crunching computer search program that matches fragments of potential drug molecules to the known shapes of viral surface proteins has identified several FDA-approved drugs that could be the basis for new medicines -- if emerging viruses such as the H5N1(avian flu) or H1N1/09 (swine flu) develop resistance to current antiviral therapies -- according to a presentation at the ... [News Source]

Computer search algorithms identify FDA-approved drugs that could be the basis for new medicines (News-Medical-Net) A massive, data-crunching computer search program that matches fragments of potential drug molecules to the known shapes of viral surface proteins has identified several FDA-approved drugs that could be the basis for new medicines -- if emerging viruses such as the H5N1(avian flu) or H1N1/09 (swine flu) develop resistance to current antiviral therapies -- according to a presentation at the ... [News Source]