Focusing on flu

Advertisements Evaluation Focusing on Human Face

Given the importance of advertising and the massive expenditures on it, evaluating its effectiveness is one of the key questions in marketing. Also endorser as the most commonly used communication tool, allocates a large portion of advertising costs and its use is still under development. In this project, we use Communicational and Observational approaches to explore the impact of utilizing ‘hu...

Pause on avian flu transmission research.

The continuous threat of an influenza pandemic represents one of the biggest challenges in public health. Influenza pandemics are known to be caused by viruses that evolve from animal reservoirs, such as in birds and pigs, and can acquire genetic changes that increase their ability to transmit in humans. Pandemic preparedness plans have been implemented worldwide to mitigate the impact of influ...

BFluenza: A Proteomic Database on Bird Flu

UNLABELLED Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, also known as "bird flu" has been documented to cause an outbreak of respiratory diseases in humans. The unprecedented spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza type A is a threat to veterinary and human health. The BFluenza is a relational database which is solely devoted to proteomic information of H5N1 subtype. Bfluenza has novel features includin...

Canadian survey on pandemic flu preparations

BACKGROUND The management of pandemic influenza creates public health challenges.An ethical framework, 'Stand on Guard for Thee: ethical considerations in pandemic influenza preparedness' that served as a template for the World Health Organization's global consultation on pandemic planning, was transformed into a survey administered to a random sample of 500 Canadians to obtain opinions on key ...

Swine flu breaks out on Vancouver Island.