| The current spread of bird flu has drawn attention to the need for improved public health measures to predict, prevent and counter both natural and man-made emerging epidemic threats.
Our FluForecast™ software technology has shown that an increase in Replikin Count™ peptide quantities precedes observed epidemics. In addition, after an epidemic has run its course, there is a decline in Replikin Count™ peptide quantities.
Previously, no quantitative virus protein changes were known which correlate with, let alone predict, influenza epidemics such as the current H5N1 Bird Flu, or indicate their cessation. Advance specific warning, made possible by our discovery of a biochemistry of rapid replication, now allows time a) for public health measures to be instituted, and b) for an early start on synthetic vaccine development.
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There is widespread concern that H5N1 may be a leading candidate for the next pandemic.
With advanced warning now possible, the structurally appropriate synthetic Replikin
vaccine can be rapidly produced.
