Annual Conference on Bacterial, Viral and Infectious Diseases

Avian flu refers to a group of infectious diseases caused by influenza viruses that infect birds causing disease. One sub type of Avian Flu is H5N1.  H5N1 is a severe infection with a high mortality rate.The first outbreak  of H5N1 bird  flu  was in December 2003. Since then, over 700 cases have been reported, in Africa, Asia, and Europe with the highest cases reported in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Egypt. The most recent  case of H5N1 was reported in Malaysia in March 2017. It killed a number of chickens, but no human cases were reported. It is not easy for humans to catch it, but it is fatal in 60 percentage  of cases. Symptoms include blood in the sputum, fever, headache  and an upset stomach . Deterioration can be rapid. Antiviral medication can help increase the chances of survival and reduce the impact of the disease. A pandemic is unlikely unless the disease learns to spread between people. What is H5N1?  Type  A strains of the in...

"Finding out what protects the majority of babies is very important , because it will cause ways that to spice up natural immune responses and build people proof against HIV infection, aforesaid Peter Kessler, laboratory intern with the Emory University faculty of drugs . Scientists had been speculative for years by the actual fact that solely a minority of babies born to mothers with HIV infection get the infection from their mothers. Currently, HIV infection is with success managed with antiretroviral medicine , however these medicine need to incline for all times . Preventing the infection is incredibly vital , however there's no immunizing agent on the market . However, Kessler and his colleagues found that levels of Treg lymphocytes were higher within the blood of new born babies born to mothers with HIV infection. World Health Organization had at large the infection themselves, compared with babies World Health Organization were born wi...