Avian Influenza and the Pandemic Threat

Effort aims to merge technology from four companies to create the first sticker with all-printed electronics... A plastic temperature-recording sticker that could provide detailed histories of crates of food or bottles of vaccine would be the first to use all-printed electronics components—including memory, logic, and even the battery. The cost per sticker could be only 30 cents or less. {Technology Review, 30 Jan}

Ralph Tripp is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Vaccine Development in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. The influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and antiviral {Infection Control Today, 27 Jan}

Justin Meyer, an MSU graduate student, led a team of researchers, including Devin Dobias, former MSU undergraduate student, that showed how new viruses evolve. Photo by G.L. Kohuth. In the current issue of Science, researchers at Michigan State {Infection Control Today, 26 Jan}