Wisconsin stands at the center of scientific efforts to avert
flu epidemics
Laptop Battery By Tom Still • 03/20/06
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Thinkpad Welcome to Wisconsin, the flu capital of North America.
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Microsoft Don't take that title the wrong way and run screaming for the
nearest border. Wisconsin has yet to become a hot spot for the
spread of avian influenza and, it can be hoped, won't become one.
However, it may be the place where a possible pandemic is monitored
and even controlled.
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Laptop Computers Wisconsin is a leader in the national mobilization against the
virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, research to make flu
viruses more effective, and testing to determine whether flu
samples are becoming more resistant to anti-viral drugs.
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Laptop Computer The state's expertise was front-and-center last week when the
following news stories broke:
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Desktop Computer Samples being collected from migratory birds in Alaska are being
delivered to the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory at the U.S.
Geological Survey's National Wildlife Center in Madison. There,
scientists are testing the samples for viral influenza, preserving
them and injecting them into chicken eggs to be replicated for
research. So far, no troublesome cases have been identified. By
late summer, the lab may be handling 1,500 samples per day.
Notebooks Governor Jim Doyle announced the $9 million Institute for
Influenza Viral Research will open in Madison's University Research
Park by the end of next year. It will be led by one of the latest
stars on the UW-Madison faculty, flu researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka,
who spurned a more lucrative offer from the University of
Pittsburgh to stay in Wisconsin. Kawaoka has gained attention for
engineering a "reverse genetics" technique to make flu vaccine more
efficient and for showing how flu viruses organize their genetic
material to create infectious particles.
Lenovo The state Laboratory of Hygiene will soon become the second U.S.
lab to use a new test to check if flu samples are resistant to
anti-viral drugs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in
Atlanta is the only place in the country to use the test so far.
More testing is vital because ordinary flu strains as well as bird
flu show signs of defeating Tamiflu, the main treatment and
prevention drug available.
Hard Drive The H5N1 strain of avian influenza may spread, somewhat
predictably and naturally, based on the migratory flight patterns
of birds. Researchers are watching the spring migrations of birds
along the American Pacific, American Central and Atlantic flyways
to see what happens when birds from North and South America mingle
with Asian birds in the vast nesting grounds of Alaska and northern
Canada. Those birds would return south later in the year.
Travelstar In Alaska, biologists are swabbing birds daily for signs of the
H5N1 virus, and they're shipping a good number of those samples to
Madison. As federal Health and Human Services Secretary Michael
Leavitt said last week: "It's only a matter of time before we
discover H5N1 birds in America."
Gateway That doesn't necessarily mean trouble for people, the poultry
industry or pets. So far, the disease has not spread directly from
birds to humans only from people handling diseased live or uncooked
poultry. In most outbreaks in Southeast Asia, for example, the
movement of the virus was tied to the legal and illegal spread of
poultry products. In that part of the world, many people routinely
live in close proximity to birds.
Laptop Parts Bird flu has been detected in 43 nations, scientists say, and is
overwhelmingly affecting birds. But it is also being transmitted
across species; since 2003, the World Health Organization has
confirmed 177 human cases. About half have been fatal.
Software Wisconsin is a likely sentinel because of its concentration of
researchers and wildlife experts, as well as its strategic location
on the American Central Flyway. In addition to the National
Wildlife Center in Madison and the UW-Madison, the state is home to
the Marshfield Clinic, a national leader in research involving
animal diseases that spread to humans, and the Medical College of
Wisconsin, which has a Center for Biopreparedness and Infectious
Diseases.
Hard Drives Led by experts such as the UW-Madison's Kawaoka and Hon Ip,
director of the federal virology lab in Madison, the campaign to
detect bird flu, devise effective tests and research possible
remedies appears to be in good hands. However, the best way to
fight the bird flu will be not to get it in the first place which
is why citizens in Wisconsin and elsewhere should take reasonable
precautions if the time comes.
Electronics Once again, Wisconsin is demonstrating its strength in core
research. Quietly, that expertise could save thousands of lives by
combating an invader as tiny as a flu bug.
Canon Tom Still is president of the Wisconsin Technology Council. He
is the former associate editor of the Wisconsin State Journal in
Madison.
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