| Roshan said: |
| I came across of this virus called: AMV (Avian Myeloblastosis Virus). I am not familiar with the type of disease this virus can cause. Is this the virus that is recently infecting chickens in some parts of Asia and can be fatal to humans? |
One of the major pandemic in the 20th century was the Spanish flu that according to Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Director of NIH and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases (NIAID), killed between 20 to 40 million people worldwide in 1918.
Without vaccination or drugs, medium-scale pandemic could affect 15-35% of the U.S. population. The recent avian enfluenza subtype is called H5N1 which was isolated from the virus that erupted in Southeast Asia in 2004. Some companies are already working on the vaccine development such as Sanofi Pasteur. Other companies like Applied Biosystems are developing flu detection kits. Vaccine against the H5N1 strain is being developed in Chiron's Liverpool U.K. facility ( where fluvirin was made). Alnylam Pharmaceuticals ( www.alnylam.com) is engaged in in working with short interfering RNA (siRNA)to target highly conserved sites in the flu vaccine.
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