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Wednesday 30 November 2011

Seasonal flu may not spring from east Asia

NEW SCIENTIST - ONLINE NEWS | 27 NOVEMBER 2011
http://pulse.me/s/3xcN0
Rob Lambkin-Williams BSc, PhD, MRPharmS
Chief Scientific Officer


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Monday 28 November 2011

Polio near-eradicated in India - Pakistan struggling

NEW SCIENTIST - ONLINE NEWS | 25 NOVEMBER 2011
http://pulse.me/s/3uwLA 
India has only had a single case this year but risks re-infection from its neighbour.

United Nations report global drop in HIV infections

NEW SCIENTIST - ONLINE NEWS | 26 NOVEMBER 2011
http://pulse.me/s/3w40n

RLW

Influenza vaccine grown in plants

23rd Novermber 2011
One of the biggest problems the world faces when the next pandemic hits will be how quickly can we produce a vaccine. With Swine flu we were lucky, the virus was relatively mild, but vaccine arrived too late. Some interesting technologies might change this, including growing the vaccine in plants, see the story below;



Rob LW

An alternative universal flu vaccine

8th November 2011
After yesterday's news of a potential universal influenza vaccine, here is another, but this group is taking a very different approach.

A Universal Flu Vaccine

7th November 2011
Influenza viruses mutate rapidly and almost every year scientists have to update the flu vaccine to match that current virus. The holy grail of influenza research is a universal flu vaccine and this week we may have come one step closer.

Rob LW