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New bird flu vaccine works in mice
• Flu • Feb 02 06
Scientists have produced a vaccine against deadly H5N1 strains of bird flu that has protected mice, using a genetic engineering technique that can be…
U.N. studies lower mortality rate in Turkish bird flu
• Flu • Jan 27 06
Scientists are investigating whether a lower mortality rate for people infected with bird flu in Turkey means that the virus is becoming less deadly…
First large-scale bird flu genome study
• Flu • Jan 26 06
Investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have completed the first large-scale study of bird flu virus genomes, thereby doubling the…
Bird flu viruses carry unique genes, study finds
• Flu • Jan 26 06
Scientists may have found out what makes the H5N1 influenza virus so deadly - bird flu viruses have a gene that may make them…
Scientists solve puzzle of flu virus replication
• Flu • Jan 25 06
Scientists have solved the genetic puzzle of how influenza A viruses - including the H5N1 bird flu - replicate inside cells, which could help…
WHO update on avian influenza in Indonesia
• Flu • Jan 23 06
The Ministry of Health in Indonesia has confirmed an additional 2 cases of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. Both cases were…
Protecting Yourself from Flu Pandemic
• Flu • Jan 20 06
It’s only a matter of time. A pandemic, a worldwide influenza epidemic, is inevitable, say health experts.
Pandemics tend to occur when disease-causing organisms…
Tamiflu alone won’t work in bird flu pandemic
• Flu • Jan 20 06
In a review published this week a warning has been issued against the apparent reliance by most countries on the drug Tamiflu to combat…
Systemic spread of avian influenza virus in cats
• Flu • Jan 17 06
Researchers at Erasmus Medical Center have demonstrated systemic spread of avian influenza virus in cats infected by respiratory, digestive, and cat-to-cat contact.
The paper…
Another child dies from suspected bird flu in Turkey
• Flu • Jan 16 06
Health officials in Turkey say a girl who has has died in the eastern region of Turkey is suspected to have had bird flu.
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Indonesian girl dies of bird flu
• Flu • Jan 16 06
A 13-year-old Indonesian girl died of bird flu at the weekend while two of her siblings have tested positive for the H5N1 virus, a…
Centrally coordinated control campaign crucial to battle bird flu
• Flu • Jan 12 06
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned today that the highly pathogenic Avian Influenza virus H5N1 could become endemic in…
New test could monitor bird flu virus mutations
• Flu • Jan 11 06
A new test may help provide a kind of early warning system for new and dangerous mutations of the avian flu virus, U.S. researchers…
Avian Flu - What Can We Do?
• Flu • Jan 11 06
The University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security is pulling together 23 national avian flu experts from avian flu research, public health…
As Turks struggle with bird flu experts say it will be controlled
• Flu • Jan 10 06
As local officials were sealing off parts of the major cities of Ankara and Istanbul and thousands of birds were being culled, Guenael Rodier,…
Avian Flu Transmission to Humans May Be Higher Than Thought
• Flu • Jan 09 06
A new study suggests that there is an association between direct contact with dead or sick poultry and flu-like illness in humans and that…
Travelers in Russia warned about bird flu in Turkey
• Flu • Jan 09 06
Following the confirmation by officials that two children and one adult have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in Turkey’s capital…
Scientists in uphill battle to fight bird flu
• Flu • Jan 06 06
Fighting the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus is all the more difficult because experts are still figuring out how best to use Tamiflu, believed…
Signs of Tamiflu resistance no cause for alarm
• Flu • Dec 22 05
Signs that the H5N1 bird flu virus may be developing resistance to the frontline drug Tamiflu in some patients are not necessarily a cause…
Chinese New Year could mean more bird flu outbreaks
• Flu • Dec 20 05
China has warned that bird flu could be more prevalent over the Lunar New Year holidays as the transport of live poultry increases.
Chinese…
Scientists working to protect us against avian and pandemic flu
• Flu • Dec 15 05
The expression ‘prevention is better than a cure’ is a truism when it comes to vaccine research. European scientists in various EU-funded projects are…
Ukraine Confirms Deadly Strain of Bird Flu in Crimea
• Flu • Dec 14 05
Ukraine on Wednesday confirmed for the first time that outbreaks of bird flu in 11 Crimean villages were the deadly H5N1 strain that has…
Hospitals a good place to catch bird flu
• Flu • Dec 12 05
While U.S. officials continue to urge states and businesses to get ready for an outbreak of serious disease, issuing checklists of preparations, and Congress…
Bird flu would cause serious recession in the U.S.
• Flu • Dec 12 05
According to the latest estimates a bird flu pandemic could cost the U.S. economy between $500 billion and $675 billion, and cause a serious…
Bird flu spread may raise Vietnam’s poverty
• Flu • Dec 09 05
Vietnam’s bird flu outbreaks threaten to drop farmers back into the poverty they escaped only recently and the government needs to find ways to…