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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53720#.VNB0hyzQrzE Author(s)     Wei Hu Affiliation(s) Department of Computer Science, Houghton College, Houghton, USA . ABSTRACT The advent of a novel avian origin H7N9 emerged in China in March 2013 is of major health concern, as it has little virulence in birds but can cause severe illness and death in humans. As people continue to get infected by this new virus in 2014, we need to understand the current status and trend of its evolution at the end of year 2014. The influenza viruses have two surface proteins, haemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA), which are involved in viral entry into and egress from the host cells respectively. In a previous study published in May 2013, we found that the HA protein of this new human H7N9 virus was able to preferentially bind to the avian type receptors as its primary binding and human type receptors a...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52822#.VKn3mMnQrzE Author(s) Dhivya Rajasekaran 1* , Enzo A. Palombo 1 , Tiong Chia Yeo 2 , Diana Lim Siok Ley 2 , Chu Lee Tu 2 , Francois Malherbe 1 , Lara Grollo 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia . 2 Sarawak Biodiversity Centre, Kuching, Malaysia . ABSTRACT The frequent emergence of drug resistant influenza viral strains emphasizes the urgent and continual need to develop new antiviral drugs. Given the encouraging findings of previous studies on antiviral compounds from plant sources, this stu...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52499#.VJohBcCAM4 Author(s)   Day-Yu Chao 1* , Kuang-Fu Cheng 2 , Yu-Hsin Liao 1 , Ming-Tsan Liu 3 , Ying-Hen Hsieh 4,5 , Tsai-Chung Li 2,4 , Trong-Neng Wu 4,5 , Chiu-Ying Chen 5 Affiliation(s) 1 Graduate Institute of Microbiology and Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan . 2 CMU Biostatistics Center, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan . 3 National Influenza Center, Center for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan . 4 Graduate Institute of Biostatistics, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan . 5 Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan . ABSTRACT ...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52087#.VIVAKmfHRK0 Author(s) Nezar H. Khdary 1,2 , Muhammed A. Alalem 2 , Abdulhafiz M. Turkistan 3 , Saad S. Alghamdi 3 Affiliation(s) 1 King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, KSA . 2 Preventive Health Affairs and Infectious Diseases Control Department, Directorate of Health Affairs, Makkah, KSA . 3 Primary Health Care Affairs and Diseases Control, Makkah, KSA . ABSTRACT The flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1, termed Pandemic H1N1/09 virus by the World Health Organization (WHO), which was first identified in April 2009. The disease has also been termed novel Influenz...