Novel and Re-emerging Respiratory Viral Diseases
Series: Novartis Foundation Symposia; Novartis Foundation Symposia
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780470770689
Description: The past decade has seen mounting global concern regarding viral outbreaks such as SARS, avian influenza and West Nile virus. In 2004 and 2005, reports of bird-to-human, and possible human-to-human, transmissions of the H5N1 influenza viruses raised fears that these viruses could cause a pandemic on the scale of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Previous to this, a novel coronavirus had been identified as the aetiological agent of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a new respiratory viral disease that emerged at the end of 2002 and caused profound disturbances in over 30 countries.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Novel and Re-Emerging Respiratory Viral Diseases; Contents; Chair's introduction; Identification and characterization of novel viruses; The evolution of viral emergence; Antigenic cartography of human and swine influenza A(H3N2) viruses; Influenza pandemics and control; On the activation of membrane fusion by influenza haemagglutinin; Singapore SARS experience and preparation for future outbreak; SARS lessons for a young virology laboratory in Singapore.; title: How the SARS experience has helped preparations for future outbreaks: the Taiwan experience, with emphasis on the successful control of institutional outbreak of influenza in 2003/2004 using a stockpiGeneral discussion I; Genetic and antigenic characterization of avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses isolated from humans in mainland China; Emerging infectious diseases and the animalhuman interface; Transmission and pathogenicity of H5N1 influenza viruses; Development of vaccine for a future influenza pandemic; FINAL DISCUSSION; Contributor Index; Subject.