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MERS has potential to cause pandemic, WHO says
NBCNews.com (blog)
GENEVA - The World Health Organization on Monday urged health workers around the world to be on the alert for symptoms of the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS), which has the potential to circle the globe and cause a ...
Deadly Saudi MERS-CoV Global Pandemic Bio-tech Stocks Profit PotentialThe Market Oracle
MERS-Coronavirus The Next Global Pandemic – Death Toll 58 And ClimbingGuardian Express
New SARS-Like Virus: How Big Is The Threat?Forbes
Design & Trend -Deutsche Welle -Hindustan Times
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Asian Scientist Magazine

MIT Researchers Study Pandemic Potential Of H5N1 & H7N9 Virus
Asian Scientist Magazine
17, 2013) – By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office – Influenza viruses that emerge from birds or pigs can create pandemic flu if they gain the ability to spread from person to person. New research from MIT shows that two recently emerged bird flu strains ...

NPR (blog)

How Nature Builds A Pandemic Flu Virus
NPR (blog)
He and his colleagues took a look at the genetic sequences of past flu pandemics to learn how a virus goes from infecting only chickens or pigeons to sickening millions of people globally. They published their thoughts on the topic Wednesday in the New ...
Influenza Virus Mutations Could Result In Pandemic FluMedical News Today
Bird Flu One Mutation Away From a Potential PandemicEveryday Health
H7N9 Flu Outbreak Surprising, PuzzlingMedPage Today
The Conversation
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Brain Blogger (blog)

Scared of the Sun – the Global Pandemic of Vitamin D Deficiency
Brain Blogger (blog)
Vitamin D deficiency has already become a global pandemic, yet remains frequently overlooked by both media and health professionals. Recent research suggests that more than 80% of the European population and half of the world are vitamin D deficient.

Salon

WHO: MERS Coronavirus Has Potential to Cause Pandemic
Voice of America
GENEVA - The World Health Organization on Monday urged health workers around the world to be on the alert for symptoms of the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS), which has the potential to circle the globe and cause a ...
Surgical masks for Ramadan? New virus has pandemic potentialSalon
Saudi Arabia still tight-lipped on SARS-related virus with pandemic potentialBoing Boing
MERS coronavirus has potential to cause pandemic - WHOReuters
RedOrbit -Westmoreland County Times -Foreign Affairs
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Possible Pandemic: Is MERS the New SARS?
National Geographic
Does modern life make us more susceptible to modern pandemics? We asked virologist Nathan Wolfe, author of The Viral Storm and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, to explain what we know and don't know about this deadly new virus. Wolfe, the ...
How the Online World Is Fighting the Next PandemicTheTyee.ca
BUG HUNTERS CONCERNED ABOUT POSSIBLE WORLD PANDEMIC FROM ...Sky Valley Chronicle

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Emergent BioSolutions Secures Exclusive US Commercial Rights to Next ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
"This transaction, which secures manufacturing rights to a next generation pandemic influenza vaccine candidate, is a step towards satisfying Emergent's commitment to BARDA as a Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing," said ...

BigPond News

WHO proposes new pandemic flu alert levels
CIDRAP
Jun 10, 2013 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today proposed a new pandemic alert system, one that's designed to focus more on disease risk than geographic spread and to streamline communications to the public. At a media ...
WHO simplifies pandemic alert systemBigPond News
WHO Issues Interim Guidance on Pandemic Influenza Risk ManagementInfection Control Today

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How a World War Z-Like Pandemic Would Impact the Banking Industry
Go Banking Rates
What is a pandemic? It's the same idea as an epidemic, an infectious disease that effects a disproportionate number of the population, though it's on the next level in terms of how widespread it is, both geographically and in the number if people who ...

WHO Updates Guidance For Pandemic Flu Risk Management
Intellectual Property Watch
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released an updated guidance document on pandemic influenza risk management, which includes the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework for the sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines ...