Part 1: Flu research: a legacy of neglect Part 2: Vaccine production capacity falls far shortPart 3: H5N1 poses major immunologic challengesPart 4: The promise and problems of adjuvantsPart 5: What role for prepandemic vaccination?Part 6: Looking to novel vaccine technologiesPart 7: Time for a vaccine 'Manhattan Project'?Bibliography. Part 1: Flu research: a legacy of neglect Part 2: Vaccine production capacity falls far shortPart 3: H5N1 poses major immunologic challengesPart 4: The...

Africa's governments, its industry and its research institutions are well aware of the potential that agricultural biotechnology holds if applied in other ways and to indigenous crops. The genes incorporated into the crops include those that confer insect, fungal, viral and bacterial resistance, protein quality improvements, herbicide tolerance, and salt and drought resistance. The sweet potato trials met some setbacks because it is believed that the construct for the virus resistance was...

The grants from Smithfield Foods were negotiated in 2000 in a 25-year commitment of $50 million to help clean up hog farm waste lagoons. woman died after a boulder struck her as she bicycled with a group of friends in a Virginia state park. A former Marine and airline pilot was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Monday for traveling to Charlotte to engage in sexual conduct with a 10-year-old girl. Cooper, who lived in the Granite Falls area, had been sitting in the back middle seat...

Companies as diverse as Wolfgang Puck and Burger King are impressing sensitive consumers with meals featuring eggs from so-called cage-free hens or pork from pigs not confined to crates or small barn stalls. The percent of animal products that animal rights activists would call "humanely raised and slaughtered" remains small compared with that from industrial-type production methods. It often means more acres of expensive farmland to allow animals more space, and longer waits before they...

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has instructed local health watchdogs to curb the spread of a deadly pig-borne disease that has killed two people since early this year. They usually manifest high fever, malaise, nausea and vomiting, followed by meningitis, subcutaneous hemorrhage, toxic shock and coma in severe cases. Two of the 21 have perished and two others were still in critical condition, the institute said. It is most prevalent in domesticated pigs, but is also occasionally found...

He realized in 1996 that he would have to eventually somehow diversify his farm operation or obtain an "off the farm " job to keep his cash flow in proper perspective. In 1998 Koschmeder signed a contract to erect three confinement buildings and manure reception pit on his property located 3 1/2 miles north and 3/4 of a mile west of Riceville. The contracted company is responsible for most of the general costs of the operation such as shipping, medical costs and cost of the hogs. He must...