Study: Antibody discovery may lead to broad defense against flu Jun 30, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – Researchers say they have identified human antibodies that bind to a molecular target found in a wide range of influenza A viruses, and they report that mice treated with these antibodies were protected against lethal H5N1 avian influenza and seasonal H1N1 virus challenges. [News Source]

Remember West Nile Virus? The D.C. Department of Health wants you to stay away from mosquitoes . Yes, compared to bird flu, West Nile Virus seems so 2005—but it's still around. In a press release, DOH explains that West Nile mainly threatens birds, but is occasionally transmitted to human beings when mosquitoes bite. [News Source]

Times @ 25: The news that touched our lives Floods, flu, farming, Plan A and Sumas Energy 2 - the Times family was there to record some of the biggest milestones in the past 25 years that have helped shape Abbotsford's unique character. [News Source]

Matt Ridley: Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists When I was a student, in the 1970s, the world was coming to an end. The adults told me so. [News Source]

Matt Ridley: Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists When I was a student, in the 1970s, the world was coming to an end. The adults told me so. [News Source]

Zoonotic Diseases: WSU Breaks Ground On School For Global Animal Health Building Under a sunny sky, officials from Washington State University and the Gates Foundation broke ground on a 62,000-square-foot, three-story flagship research building for a new School for Global Animal Health. The first of its kind research facility will house a state-of-the-art infectious disease research center for investigating emerging disease. From Avian influenza, to West Nile virus, nearly ... [News Source]

Zoonotic Diseases: WSU Breaks Ground On School For Global Animal Health Building Under a sunny sky, officials from Washington State University and the Gates Foundation broke ground on a 62,000-square-foot, three-story flagship research building for a new School for Global Animal Health. The first of its kind research facility will house a state-of-the-art infectious disease research center for investigating emerging disease. From Avian influenza, to West Nile virus, nearly ... [News Source]

China And US Open Disease Study Center In Shanghai What's Your Reaction? SHANGHAI — American and Shanghai health authorities opened an epidemiology center in the Chinese city Tuesday to train experts in sleuthing out ways to prevent chronic and epidemic diseases. [News Source]

China And US Open Disease Study Center In Shanghai What's Your Reaction? SHANGHAI — American and Shanghai health authorities opened an epidemiology center in the Chinese city Tuesday to train experts in sleuthing out ways to prevent chronic and epidemic diseases. [News Source]

U.S., China Open Shanghai Epidemiology Center For Chronic, Epidemic Diseases Chinese and U.S. health officials opened an epidemiology center in Shanghai Tuesday to train experts to deal with and prevent chronic and epidemic diseases, the Associated Press reports. The CDC "is helping with training and technical assistance at the center that will be 'driven by what are the major public health issues in this country,' said CDC deputy director Stephen B. Thacker." Additional ... [News Source]

U.S., China Open Shanghai Epidemiology Center For Chronic, Epidemic Diseases Chinese and U.S. health officials opened an epidemiology center in Shanghai Tuesday to train experts to deal with and prevent chronic and epidemic diseases, the Associated Press reports. The CDC "is helping with training and technical assistance at the center that will be 'driven by what are the major public health issues in this country,' said CDC deputy director Stephen B. Thacker." Additional ... [News Source]

Also In Global Health News: India’s Right To Information Law; Flu Treatment Study; Haiti Food Aid; U.S. Commits $88M … New York Times Examines India's Right To Information Law The New York Times examines India's Right to Information law and how it has "newly empowered" the country's poor. The law enables citizens to file requests for information on pending housing stipends, government pensions or "almost any information from the government," according to the newspaper. "The law has not, as some activists hoped ... [News Source]