Friday, March 03, 2006

Geneva conference on pandemic flu

The World Health Organization is to host talks on bird flu in Geneva next week : source Reuters. Read the article at:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B660331.htm


Pandemic portal at:
http://www.pandemic-flu.co.uk/

Bird flu victims could be treated with Etoposide chemotherapy drug.

Etoposide, a chemotherapy drug that improves survival of HLH patients, may offer a weapon against bird flu says a professor at Karolinska Hospital Child Cancer Research Institute in Stockholm. Read the article by Kounteya Sinha in the Times of India.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1436187.cms

See the pandemic flu portal at:
http://www.pandemic-flu.co.uk/