Bird flu

US company could make flu vaccine abroad after snub
Yahoo! | 37 minutes ago
BETHESDA, Maryland (AFP) ? A US company said it would consider making its innovative flu vaccine abroad after a panel of experts advising the US drug regulator voted not to recommend it for approval.

UPDATE 1-Norway says found H1N1 mutation in flu victims
Reuters | 6 hours 54 minutes ago
OSLO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Norwegian health authorities said on Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest symptoms among those infected.

Norway Says Found H1N1 Mutation in Flu Fatalities
ABC News | 7 hours 34 minutes ago
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian health authorities said Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest symptoms among those infected.

Norway says found H1N1 mutation in flu fatalities
National Post (Canada) | 7 hours 34 minutes ago
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian health authorities said Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest symptoms among those infected.

Can your doctor spot H1N1?
CNN | 9 hours 28 minutes ago
(CNN) -- It was early on a Monday, just the seventh week of school, when Danelle Olivares decided she would have to keep her 5-year-old daughter home from kindergarten. Trinity had a nasty stomach bug, but no fever, and Olivares figured that a day of rest at home would make things OK.

US Drug Stocks Mixed; Inovio Up On Vaccine Study Results
Wall Street Journal, The | 9 hours 33 minutes ago
Drug stocks were mixed overall early Friday, but shares of Inovio Biomedical Corp. (INO) soared on positive clinical data for its new DNA-based flu vaccine.

Inovio soars, Novavax falls in early action
MarketWatch | 9 hours 59 minutes ago
Drug stocks clung to the flat line early Friday while shares of Inovio Biomedical soared on positive clinical data for its new DNA-based flu vaccine.

Newly discovered species at risk from climate change: WWF
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 12 hours 25 minutes ago
BANGKOK - Scientists discovered 163 new species in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region last year, but all are at risk of extinction due to climate change, the WWF said in a report released Friday.

New research helps explain why bird flu has not caused a pandemic
innovations-report | 12 hours 57 minutes ago
Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ONE.

Port St. Lucie special effects studio: The city has put together a proposed $51.8 million deal, in addition to a $20 million state incentive package. -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | 16 hours 17 minutes ago
The deal between Wyndcrest DD Florida Inc., now being tabbed as an expansion of California-based Digital Domain, will go before the City Council for conceptual approval during its 7 p.m. meeting Monday at City Hall

Casey Anthony case: Defense points fingers at Roy Kronk as potential murder suspect -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | 16 hours 17 minutes ago
Casey Anthony 's defense team is going after the former Orange County meter reader who discovered her daughter's remains, claiming there is circumstantial evidence that makes him "equally likely to be responsible for the death of the child."

Coral Gables High School stabbing: A defense attorney for Andy Rodriguez suggested in court Thursday that the victim was a ``bully'' who tried strangling his client during a fight. -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | 17 hours 7 minutes ago
Lawyer Alexander Michaels contends that his client, Andy Rodriguez, 17, was acting in self-defense when he stabbed Juan Carlos Rivera, 17, five times during the fight in the school hallway on Sept. 19.

An Apollo Beach man accused of setting his estranged wife on fire has been charged with attempted first-degree murder. -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | 17 hours 7 minutes ago
Christopher Hanney was booked into Hillsborough County's Orient Road Jail on Wednesday night. A Hillsborough Circuit judge ordered the 44-year-old Hanney be held without bail on Thursday

Michelle Spence-Jones: suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones said Thursday she will run in a special election to regain her seat. -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | 17 hours 19 minutes ago
On Friday, 10 days after she overwhelmed two opponents with 83 percent of the vote in a race to represent the city's most impoverished district, Spence-Jones was charged with a single count of grand theft for allegedly redirecting $50,000 in Miami-Dade funds to a family business.