Web focus: warnings of a flu pandemic

Nature provides a web focus for avian influenza with extensive scientific information concerning avian flu, epidemiology, virology, prevention, current treatments and links towards primary research articles concerning the virus and avian influenza. Some of the informations and articles require a paid subscription.

Web focus: avian flu timeline

Nature provides an avian influenza timeline.

Avian flu: isolation of drug-resistant H5N1 virus

It presents report in the journal of Nature, of the isolation from a Vietnamese girl, of an H5N1 virus that is resistant to the drug oseltamivir, which is an inhibitor of the viral enzyme neuraminidase and is currently used for protection against and treatment of influenza.

Large-scale sequencing of human influenza reveals the dynamic nature of viral genome evolution

It presents a report in the journal of Nature, of the sequencing of 209 complete genomes of the human influenza A virus, encompassing a total of 2,821,103 nucleotides.