NEWS SCAN: WHO H5N1 confirmation, vaccine uptake dynamics, Legionnaires’ cases WHO confirms fatal Egyptian H5N1 case The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed the H5N1 avian influenza illness and death of a 20-year-old Egyptian woman whose infection was recently reported by the country's health ministry. [News Source]

Aethlon Medical Discloses Availability of CEO Presentation Aethlon Medical, Inc. , the pioneer in developing therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease and cancer, disclosed today that the video of a presentation given on July 21st by Aethlon Chairman and CEO Jim Joyce is now available to be accessed online at: [News Source]

Def Jux Releases Camu Tao’s Posthumous Debut And EL-P-Aided EP Camu Tao's posthumous debut album, King Of Hearts, will be released on ... [News Source]

Barack Obama becomes the first US President to appear on a daytime TV chat show as joins the ladies on The View Not many daytime TV chat shows have been able to entice a head of state into its studio. [News Source]

Netherlands destroying 17 million swine flu vaccine doses. The Netherlands is destroying more than 17 million unused doses of swine flu vaccine that were nearing their expiry date and that it could not resell, the health ministry said Tuesday. [News Source]

Advaxis provides update on survival information from ADXS11-001 phase 1 trial in cervix cancer Advaxis, Inc., the live, attenuated Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) immunotherapy company, has updated the survival information from its phase 1 trial of ADXS11-001 which assessed the safety of this agent in advanced, metastatic, progressive cervix cancer in women whose disease progressed subsequent to treatment with cytotoxic therapy. [News Source]

CMX157 effectively suppress replication of HIV Chimerix, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing orally-available antiviral therapeutics, today announced the publication of research results demonstrating the potential of CMX157 (hexadecyloxypropyl tenofovir) to effectively suppress replication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that cannot be treated with currently available nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors ... [News Source]

WTO backs China in US poultry case: Chinese media The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled in China's favour in a dispute with the United States over imports of Chinese chicken, state media reported Thursday. [News Source]

NEWS SCAN: Pandemic, bioterror funds cut; H5N1 death; vectorborne disease funding Emergency appropriations passage excludes pandemic, Bioshield funding The US House of Representatives yesterday passed the Senate's version of a supplemental appropriations bill that would cut $2 billion from unobligated pandemic and Project Bioshield funding, according to sources at Trust for America's Health, a Washington, DC–based nonprofit health advocacy group. [News Source]

Arunachal key to flu medicine Itanagar, July 28: A small, aromatic, evergreen wonder plant found in Arunachal Pradesh may help bolster India’s medical arsenal against bird and human flu. [News Source]

How clean hands can save lives… How clean hands can save lives... ABU DHABI — Reinforcing the importance of one of the simplest methods of preventing infection — washing hands — Mafraq Hospital launched ‘Clean Hands Save Lives’, its hand hygiene awareness campaign on Tuesday. [News Source]

Tasty transgenics Check out ongoing projects that are tinkering with edible animals [News Source]