Sharp unveils new anti-bird flu air purifier (The Hindu)
TOKYO: Japan s Sharp Corp. said on Wednesday that it has developed an air purifier that eliminates 99.9 per cent of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu within 10 minutes. The system has been improved from an earlier version which was ...

Protein Structure Discovery Opens Door For Drugs To Fight Bird Flu, Other Influenza Epidemics (Science Daily)
Researchers have reported a discovery that could help scientists develop drugs to fight the much-feared bird flu and other virulent strains of influenza. They have determined the three-dimensional structure of a site on an influenza A virus protein that binds to one of its human protein targets, thereby suppressing a person's natural defenses to the infection and paving the way for the virus to ...