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Study Looks at Health Decisions
• Flu • May 31 06
If a deadly bird flu reaches America, which would you choose: To get a risky experimental vaccine now, or to forego that risk but…
Flurry of H5N1 cases in Indonesia draws concern
• Flu • May 31 06
Scientists are worried about a sudden flurry of human bird flu cases in Indonesia, warning that a failure to control the situation may raise…
Two more bird flu cases confirmed in Indonesia
• Flu • May 29 06
Two more Indonesians have been confirmed as infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus, a health official said on Monday, citing results from a…
WHO says Indonesian bird flu cluster does not show virus has mutated
• Flu • May 26 06
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that despite the cluster of seven members from the same Indonesian family dying of bird flu this month,…
Bird flu doing the rounds, back again in China
• Flu • May 26 06
According to official sources in China an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu has been detected among wild birds in the remote far-western Qinghai province…
USDA closely monitoring bird flu in Indonesia
• Flu • May 24 06
The spread of bird flu believed to have occurred among humans in Indonesia will not trigger any change in the U.S. government’s plan for…
How to Protect Yourself from Bird Flu
• Flu • May 23 06
News media are full of scary headlines about the H5N1 bird flu virus and the possibility that it might spread among the human population.…
More Americans should get flu shot: experts
• Flu • May 19 06
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing its broadest and most ambitious vaccination effort yet for the coming influenza season, experts…
Who should get influenza vaccine?
• Flu • May 16 06
An American flu pandemic would present difficult and tragic choices: As many as 90 million people might become sick, and widespread shortages of vaccine…
Bird flu - the battle could be over
• Flu • May 16 06
Even though Dr. David Nabarro, chief pandemic flu coordinator for the United Nations says he is encouraged by how both Thailand and Vietnam had…
H5N1 Threat Puts Human Flu Back in Spotlight
• Flu • May 05 06
The emergence of the avian influenza virus H5N1 that is currently devastating chicken flocks in many countries and threatening to unleash a worldwide epidemic…
Genetics might explain why some people get bird flu
• Flu • May 04 06
People who have been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus might be genetically predisposed to infection by avian viruses, leading disease experts suggested…
St. Jude Test of Bird Flu Vaccine Proves Successful
• Flu • May 02 06
A commercially developed vaccine has successfully protected mice and ferrets against a highly lethal avian influenza virus, according to the investigator who led the…
Bird flu hits British farms
• Flu • May 01 06
According to British environment officials a strain of bird flu has now been detected at three poultry farms at North Tuddenham, near Norwich, Norfolk.…
Britain to cull 35,000 birds in bird flu alert
• Flu • Apr 27 06
Britain is to slaughter 35,000 chickens after bird flu was found among dead birds on a farm in one of the country’s biggest poultry…
Evaluation of an inactivated subunit H5N1 influenza virus vaccine in humans
• Flu • Apr 11 06
Results from a clinical trial demonstrate that high doses of an experimental H5N1 avian influenza vaccine can induce immune responses in healthy adults.
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Bird flu could kill 100,000 British children-report
• Flu • Apr 10 06
A bird flu pandemic among humans could kill 100,000 children in Britain, said a government health adviser who recommended schools draw up plans to…
Bird flu kills third Egyptian
• Flu • Apr 06 06
An Egyptian girl died from bird flu on Thursday, taking to three the country’s human death toll from the virus, the official MENA news…
Sweetgum tree may help fight bird flu
• Flu • Apr 03 06
The sweetgum tree grows widely throughout the country and is known for its mace-like green fruit, which are sometimes called “gumballs.” Now, this spiny…
Bird flu hits India again
• Flu • Mar 29 06
Officials in India say seven new cases of bird flu have been reported in the western state of Maharashtra, the site of two earlier…
Flu vaccination program could save more than 6,500 lives
• Flu • Mar 28 06
To increase influenza vaccinations rates among the elderly - those ages 65 and over who are at high risk for influenza-related mortality - the…
Sweden finds mink infected with bird flu virus
• Flu • Mar 28 06
Swedish veterinarians have identified a mink with an aggressive form of the H5 bird flu virus and had the mammal put down, the National…
Experts seek to contain Azeri bird flu outbreak
• Flu • Mar 23 06
A bird flu outbreak in Azerbaijan that has killed five young people seems to have stabilized, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday,…
Bird flu can’t spread easily in humans
• Flu • Mar 22 06
Scientists said on Wednesday they may have uncovered why the H5N1 avian flu that is so lethal in birds has not been able to…
Poor nations need help fighting bird flu
• Flu • Mar 22 06
Fewer than three dozen nations are capable of the early detection and quick response needed to contain rapidly spreading bird flu and other viruses…