<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[CBN Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Disease]]></title><link>http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/</link><description><![CDATA[Clinicians' Biosecurity Network Report archive for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease.]]></description><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2010. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. All rights reserved.]]></copyright><managingEditor><![CDATA[cbn_editor@upmc-biosecurity.org]]></managingEditor><webmaster><![CDATA[cbn_editor@upmc-biosecurity.org]]></webmaster><lastBuildDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:08:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SiteExecutive v4.1</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Study Finds that Closing Schools May Not Have Helped Slow the Spread of Flu (09-26-2008)]]></title><link>http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2008/09_September_2008/cbnreport_09262008.html</link><description><![CDATA[A new study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) suggests that Hong Kong’s efforts to close schools for two weeks during the 2008 influenza season may have done little to limit the community-wide spread of influenza.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2008/09_September_2008/cbnreport_09262008.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:21:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten Notable Publications of 2007 (01-10-2008)]]></title><link>http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2008/01_January_2008/cbnreport_01102008.html</link><description><![CDATA[Ten notable publications of 2007 from Center for Biosecurity of UPMC.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2008/01_January_2008/cbnreport_01102008.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:47:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seasonal Flu Vaccination May Offer Partial Immunity to H5N1 (02-21-2007)]]></title><link>http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2007/02_February_2007/cbnreport_02212007.html</link><description><![CDATA[mice vaccinated with the N1  used in seasonal flu vaccine, had significantly reduced mortality when challenged with H5N1. Some people who have had seasonal influenza vaccination carry antibodies that react to the N1 in the avian H5N1 virus]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2007/02_February_2007/cbnreport_02212007.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:58:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Influenza Update: Diagnostic Test, Drug Resistance, and Possible Drug Interaction (11-16-2006)]]></title><link>http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2006/11_November_2006/cbnreport_111606.html</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Colorado, the CDC, and InDevR, LLC have designed a gene chip assay that can identify and subtype Influenza A virus, distinguishing, for example, between H3N2 and H5N1 in less than 7 hours.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2006/11_November_2006/cbnreport_111606.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:54:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smallpox Antiviral Effective in Animal Trials (10-23-2006)]]></title><link>http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2006/10_October_2006/cbnreport_102306.html</link><description><![CDATA[On October 18, 2006, SIGA Technologies, Inc. announced that its antiviral drug candidate SIGA-246 demonstrated a high degree of protection against variola, the smallpox virus, in a primate trial conducted at the CDC.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2006/10_October_2006/cbnreport_102306.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
