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Purdue monitors swine flu, issues precautionary reminders

Posted on 27 April 2009. Tags: , , , , ,

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In response to a serious new flu strain that began in Mexico, Purdue University on Monday (April 27) urged faculty, staff and students to take precautions against the spread of the communicable disease and avoid travel to infected areas. The university’s pandemic preparedness committee, created during the avian flu alert in […]

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New vaccine may give long-term defense against deadly bird flu, variants

Posted on 18 April 2008. Tags: , , , , , , , ,

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A new vaccine under development may provide protection against highly pathogenic bird flu and its evolving forms, according to researchers at Purdue University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who discovered the new preventative drug and have tested it in mice. A new vaccine that apparently can provide long-lasting […]

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