Australia Protected By Biogeographic Barrier From Avian Flu But Not From Nipah Virus

medicalnewstoday Piatok, 2013, apríl 26 11:43:00 CEST | info [sk] [other]

An invisible barrier separates land animals in Australia from those in south-east Asia may also restrict the spillover of animal-borne diseases like avian flu, but researchers have found that fruit bats on either side of this line can carry Nipah virus, a pathogen that causes severe human disease....

Biogeographic barrier that protects Australia from avian flu does not stop Nipah virus

sciencedaily Štvrtok, 2013, apríl 25 4:24:00 CEST | info [sk] [other]

An invisible barrier separates land animals in Australia from those in south-east Asia may also restrict the spillover of animal-borne diseases like avian flu, but researchers have found that fruit bats on either side of this line can carry Nipah virus, a pathogen that causes severe human disease....

PRO/AH/EDR> Nipah encephalitis, human - Bangladesh (05)

promed Sobota, 2013, apríl 6 19:52:00 CEST | info [sk] [other]

Nipah/Hendra Virus Bangladesh As of 6 Apr 2013, 24 Nipah cases were identified of which 21 died (mortality rate 88 per cent). These cases were from 13 different districts (Gaibandha, Jhinaidaha, Kurigram, Kushtia, Magura, Manikgonj, Mymenshingh, Naogaon, Natore, Nilphamari, Pabna, Rajbari, Rajshahi)....

PRO/AH/EDR> Encephalitis - Bangladesh (02): Nipah virus

promed Utorok, 2013, apríl 2 17:34:00 CEST | info [sk] [other]

Date: Tue 2 Apr 2013 From: Be-Nazir Ahmed <cdc@ld.dghs.gov.bd> [edited] [In response to the request for information for the encephalitis cases reported in ProMED-mail archive no. 20130401.1613261, Prof. Be-Nazir Ahmed provided the statement below. - Mod.TY]: Yesterday [1 Apr 2013], we got the laboratory report identifying Nipah virus infection....

PRO/AH> Hendra virus, equine - Australia (03): vaccine development

promed Utorok, 2013, apríl 2 17:34:00 CEST | info [sk] [other]

Nipah/Hendra Virus Australia Natalie Beohm, 25, is one of only 3 known survivors of Hendra virus. Her friend and mentor, Ben Cunneen, a 33-year-old equine vet who was also struck down, died the day after she was released from hospital [in 1994]. The Redlands eruption in outer Brisbane proved to be the turning point....

Nipah Virus Envelope-Pseudotyped Lentiviruses Efficiently Target ephrinB2-Positive Stem Cell Populations In Vitro and Bypass the Liver Sink When Admin

jvi Pondelok, 2013, marec 25 15:38:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Nipah Virus Envelope-Pseudotyped Lentiviruses Efficiently Target ephrinB2-Positive Stem Cell Populations In Vitro and Bypass the Liver Sink When Administered In Vivo and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, Molecular Biology Institute, Department of Molecular, Cell, and.......

PRO/AH/EDR> Nipah encephalitis, human - Bangladesh (04) susp.

promed Utorok, 2013, marec 19 3:23:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Nipah/Hendra Virus Bangladesh Nipah virus claimed the life of a minor boy at Ghosgati village in Shalikha upazila on Sunday [10 Mar 2013]. A boy, aged 2, of the village died at Jessore General Hospital in the morning. District Civil Surgeon Dr Muhammad Shafiqul Alam said the boy had fallen sick after drinking date juice on Thursday [7 Mar 2013]....

''None left Nipah-affected''

bdnews24 Utorok, 2013, marec 5 19:22:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Health and Family Welfare Minister AFM Ruhul Huq on Tuesday informed Parliament that no one in the country was left infected by the bat-borne Nipah virus....

Nipah Virus Entry and Egress from Polarized Epithelial Cells [Virus-Cell Interactions]

jvi Piatok, 2013, február 22 15:44:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Highly pathogenic Nipah virus (NiV) infections are transmitted via airway secretions and urine, commonly via the respiratory route. Epithelial surfaces represent important replication sites in both primary and systemic infection phases. NiV entry and spread from polarized epithelial cells therefore.......

Individual N-Glycans Added at Intervals along the Stalk of the Nipah Virus G Protein Prevent Fusion but Do Not Block the Interaction with the Homologo

jvi Piatok, 2013, február 22 15:44:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

The promotion of membrane fusion by most paramyxoviruses requires an interaction between the viral attachment and fusion (F) proteins to enable receptor binding by the former to trigger the activation of the latter for fusion. Numerous studies demonstrate that the F-interactive sites on the.......

Smart Surveillance Rapidly Identifies Emerging Disease Threats

medicalnewstoday Pondelok, 2013, február 18 11:51:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit organization that focuses on local conservation and global health issues, announced new research focused on the rapid identification of disease outbreaks in the peer reviewed publication, Journal of the Royal Society Interface....

PRO/AH/EDR> Nipah encehalitis, human - Bangladesh (03)

promed Streda, 2013, február 6 1:31:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Nipah/Hendra Virus Bangladesh After staging a comeback in the country this winter, deadly Nipah virus has so far claimed the lives of 10 people, including 2 in the capital, out of 12 infected as of 3 Feb [2013], reports UNB (United News of Bangladesh)....

Bangladesh: Fresh outbreak of Nipah virus in Bangladesh

reliefWeb Utorok, 2013, február 5 14:20:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Source: IRIN Country: Bangladesh DHAKA, 5 February 2013 (IRIN) - Health experts in Bangladesh have reported a fresh outbreak of the Nipah virus, with 10 deaths in the past few weeks. If infected you have a high chance of dying. “The fatality rate is an astounding 77 percent,” ASM Alamgir, a.......

PRO/AH/EDR> Nipah encephalitis - Bangladesh (02)

promed Pondelok, 2013, január 28 23:35:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Nipah/Hendra Virus Bangladesh The Director of the government's disease monitoring outfit, IEDCR [Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (Bangladesh)], Prof Mahmudur Rahman on [Sun 27 Jan 2013] said 2 more died of [Nipah virus infection] taking the total death toll this year [2013] to 8....

Virus Nipah strikes back in Bangladesh, claims 8 more lives within one week

xinhuanet_en Pondelok, 2013, január 28 11:20:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

by Naim-Ul-Karim. DHAKA, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh on Monday reported eight more deaths from infection with the deadly Nipah virus within one week as the bat-borne disease has struck early and hard. The country's Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control & Research (IEDCR) confirmed two more.......

'Nipah virus claims 2 more lives'

bdnews24 Nedeľa, 2013, január 27 13:23:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Health officials are on a wake-up call as the fatal bat-borne nipah virus continues to claim more lives in Bangladesh, showing an ‘early spike’ this year....

'Boy detected with Nipah virus'

bdnews24 Nedeľa, 2013, január 27 8:49:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

An eight-year-old in Natore was shifted to Rajshahi Medical College & Hospital after being confirmed afflicted with Nipah virus....

Preventing Nipah viral infection

nationittefaq Nedeľa, 2013, január 27 7:33:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

NIPAH VIRUS (NiV) has struck again raising serious concerns among people as it has killed 5 people who were infected. The deadly viral infection breaks out during January-April almost every year and has a high fatality rate (80 percent). Fruit bats of Pteropus genus are the host of Nipah virus....

PRO/AH/EDR> Nipah encephalitis - Bangladesh

promed Štvrtok, 2013, január 24 21:40:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Nipah/Hendra Virus Bangladesh Yadav PD, Raut CG, Shete AM, et al: Detection of Nipah virus RNA in fruit bat (_Pteropus giganteus_) from India. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Sep; 87(3): 576-8. An image of _Pteropus_ fruit bats, "flying foxes", can be accessed at the source URL above....

Nipah Virus Envelope-Pseudotyped Lentiviruses Efficiently Target ephrinB2-Positive Stem Cell Populations In Vitro and Bypass the Liver Sink When Admin

jvi Štvrtok, 2013, január 24 16:06:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Sophisticated retargeting systems for lentiviral vectors have been developed in recent years. Most seek to suppress the viral envelope's natural tropism while modifying the receptor-binding domain such that its tropism is determined by the specificity of the engineered ligand-binding motif....

'Nipah virus strikes back'

bdnews24 Streda, 2013, január 23 13:18:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

The virus that killed nearly 80 percent of its total infections in Bangladesh strikes back killing an eight-year-old boy in Dhaka and leaving his father critically ill, government’s disease monitoring agency, IEDCR confirms....

A New Strategy to Predict -- and Stop -- Global Outbreaks

news-yahoo Štvrtok, 2012, december 13 0:18:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

When there's an outbreak of an infectious disease like SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) or swine flu it seems to come out of nowhere, leaving governments and health agencies scrambling to deal with the threat. But the truth is that many outbreaks can be predicted and quickly extinguished --.......

PRO/AH> Hendra virus, equine - Australia (13): (QL) new vaccine

promed Utorok, 2012, november 6 22:59:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

Nipah/Hendra Virus Queensland, Australia Today [1 Nov 2012] we are launching Equivac(R) HeV, the world's 1st commercially available Hendra vaccine for horses. This breakthrough is the culmination of a scientific journey that dates back to the emergence of Hendra virus in 1994....

How climate variability affects health

who Pondelok, 2012, október 29 16:19:00 CET | info [sk] [other]

29 October 2012 -- In her address to the World Meteorological Congress, Dr Margaret Chan gave an inventory of areas where health planning and actions can benefit from meteorological data. Many of the world’s most worrisome diseases have transmission cycles that are profoundly shaped by heat, humidity, and rainfall....

Emerging Human Coronaviruses — Disease Potential and Preparedness

nejm Streda, 2012, október 24 19:46:00 CEST | info [sk] [other]

It is likely that novel zoonotic virus infections causing serious disease and death in humans will increasingly test our ability to respond appropriately. Changes in commercial and social practices, the environment, and travel will continually provide new opportunities for zoonotic pathogens to infect humans....

N-Glycans on the Nipah Virus Attachment Glycoprotein Modulate Fusion and Viral Entry as They Protect against Antibody Neutralization [Virus-Cell Inter

jvi Štvrtok, 2012, október 18 22:30:00 CEST | info [sk] [other]

Nipah virus (NiV) is the deadliest known paramyxovirus. Membrane fusion is essential for NiV entry into host cells and for the virus' pathological induction of cell-cell fusion (syncytia). The mechanism by which the attachment glycoprotein (G), upon binding to the cell receptors ephrinB2 or.......

Nonstructural Nipah Virus C Protein Regulates both the Early Host Proinflammatory Response and Viral Virulence [Pathogenesis and Immunity]

jvi Pondelok, 2012, september 10 17:12:00 CEST | info [sk] [other]

Nipah virus (NiV) is a highly pathogenic, negative-strand RNA paramyxovirus that has recently emerged from flying foxes to cause serious human disease. We have analyzed the role of the nonstructural NiV C protein in viral immunopathogenesis using recombinant virus lacking the expression of NiV C (NiVC)....

New Vaccine May Offer Protection From Deadly Nipah Virus

hon Streda, 2012, august 29 17:45:00 CEST | info [sk] [other]

Virus causes serious respiratory distress syndrome and encephalitis, researchers say By Mary Elizabeth Dallas WEDNESDAY, Aug. 8 (HealthDay News) -- A new vaccine developed by a team of researchers may protect people and livestock from the deadly Nipah virus....