Microbix Biosystems Inc T.MBX

Alternate Symbol(s): MBXBF

Healthcare Biotechnology

Microbix Biosystems Inc. develops and commercializes biological and technological solutions for human health and wellbeing. It enables the commercialization of diagnostic assays by making a range of critical ingredients and devices for the global diagnostics industry, notably antigens for immunoassays and its laboratory quality assessment products (QAPs) that support clinical lab proficiency testing, enable assay development and validation, or help ensure the quality of clinical diagnostic workflows. Its segments include development, manufacturing and sales of products relating to the medical diagnostics industry, namely antigens as test ingredients, quality assessment products to help ensure the accuracy of test workflows and viral transport medium to enable collection of patient test samples and, and development and commercialization of novel and proprietary products or technologies, such as Kinlytic. Its Kinlytic urokinase is a biologic thrombolytic drug used to treat blood clots.

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Post by prophetoffactzon May 30, 2024 2:35pm

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HUMAN RESPIRATORY INFECTION BY BIRD FLU

@DrEricDing

Huge—HUMAN RESPIRATORY INFECTION BY BIRD FLU—A third human case of H5 bird flu just diagnosed in a Michigan farm worker. The individual worked on a dairy farm & didn’t wear PPE. However—“With this case, respiratory symptoms occurred after direct exposure to an infected cow”—including cough and other respiratory symptoms! Thus is the first bird flu case in which an infected individual reported respiratory symptoms. The 2 human cases reported earlier this year experienced only conjunctivitis (pink eye).

Why is respiratory illness significant? It means the bird flu virus has somehow evolved to go respiratory. “The significance of respiratory symptoms relates to the possibility of onward spread. In people, influenza transmits via the respiratory route. A person with flu virus in their airways could be more likely to spread the virus — if the virus has the capacity to transmit between humans — than a person with an infection in their eye.”