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Promising Flu Vaccine from Insects
An influenza vaccine produced with the use of insect cells appeared safe and produced an immunogenic response in healthy adults, suggesting promise as an alternative to using embryonated eggs for the development of influenza vaccine, according to a preliminary study in the April 11 issue of JAMA.
Apr 14, 2007 - 11:39:34 AM
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Bird flu claims eighth victim in Egypt
Cairo, Dec 24 - With the death of an Egyptian woman due to bird flu Sunday, the death toll by the deadly disease rose to eight since March this year, a World Health Organisation - official said.
Dec 25, 2006 - 5:20:20 AM
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Seoul reports second bird-flu outbreak in two weeks
Seoul, Nov 28 - South Korea Tuesday reported its second outbreak in two weeks of the strain of bird flu that can be deadly in humans.
Nov 28, 2006 - 11:32:36 PM
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Are Flu Vaccines Worth the Effort?
Each year enormous effort goes into producing influenza vaccines and delivering them to appropriate sections of the population. But a review of the evidence in this weekÂ’s BMJ suggests that they may not be as effective as we think.
Oct 29, 2006 - 9:20:37 PM
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Lessons from SARS may help prepare for bird flu
Lessons learnt from SARS epidemics in China may help us prepare for new epidemics, such as human avian flu, say experts in this weekÂ’s BMJ. Mainland China experienced three outbreaks of SARS between November 2002 and May 2004. The first outbreak resulted in a pandemic and caused huge financial loss and social panic, but rigorous control policies prevented further pandemics.
Aug 19, 2006 - 9:51:37 PM
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Incomplete vaccination could worsen the spread of avian flu
Incomplete vaccination of poultry flocks could make the spread of deadly strains of avian flu such as H5N1 worse, scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Warwick have found. The research shows that even though the available vaccines are effective on individual birds, the disease is likely to spread unless almost all of a flock has been protected. The study, published in Nature journal, is the first to quantify how incomplete vaccination of flocks can contribute to the undetected spread of the disease.
Aug 18, 2006 - 6:39:37 PM
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Scientists aim to thwart use of flu as bioweapon
Flu is already a big killer, responsible for more than 35,000 deaths in the United States alone each year. And wild birds infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu are gradually broadening the scope of that disease. This week in Rochester, scientists are discussing ways to better understand the flu and also how to prevent the possibility that terrorists could somehow modify flu as a bioweapon to make it even more lethal than it is already.
Jun 22, 2006 - 5:14:37 AM
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Pakistani poultry industry demands 10-year tax holiday
Pakistani poultry farmers have sought a 10-year tax exemption to support their dwindling business after the detection of the H5N1 strain of bird flu triggered a fall in demand and prices, a poultry trader said.
May 7, 2006 - 6:26:37 PM
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Pandemic prevention plan approved for Asia Pacific
Government officials from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries Friday approved a regional plan to stave off a new influenza pandemic - or at least to keep the global economy running if millions of people die or fall ill with the disease.
May 7, 2006 - 6:15:37 PM
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H5N1 threat puts human flu back in spotlight
The emergence of the avian influenza virus H5N1 that is currently devastating chicken flocks in many countries and threatening to unleash a worldwide epidemic among humans has triggered a renewed interest among scientists in studying influenza A viruses, according to investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. This renewed interest could lead to new discoveries of immune system response to viruses that could lead to better drugs and vaccines, the researchers write in a review article that appears in the May issue of Nature Immunology.
May 7, 2006 - 3:20:37 PM
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Bird flu hits ninth poultry farm in Pakistan
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza has struck the ninth poultry farm in Pakistan as authorities struggled to contain the spread of the deadly virus at poorly maintained facilities, officials said Monday.
May 3, 2006 - 1:06:37 AM
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Conjunctivitis caused by H7 avian influenza in a UK poultry worker
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has confirmed that a poultry worker is suffering from conjunctivitis caused by H7 avian influenza. The individual works on the Norfolk poultry farm confirmed as having an outbreak of (low pathogenic) H7N3 avian influenza.
Apr 30, 2006 - 11:42:37 PM
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Bird flu strain makes Britain slaughter chicken
The British government has ordered the slaughter of some 35,000 chickens at a farm in the south-eastern county of Norfolk after dead birds tested positive for a strain of bird flu, it was reported Thursday.
Apr 28, 2006 - 1:15:37 AM
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China confirms new human case of bird flu
An eight-year pupil in southwest China's Sichuan province was confirmed to be infected with H5N1 bird flu, the health ministry said Thursday.
Apr 28, 2006 - 1:10:37 AM
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Chhattisgarh chicken samples test negative for flu
Chhattisgarh said Thursday that 5,500 chicken samples collected from poultry farms across the state have tested negative for bird flu.
Apr 28, 2006 - 12:56:37 AM
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EU for support to bird flu-hit poultry market
European Union farm ministers Tuesday gave their backing to a plan under which European producers of eggs and poultry, hit by a slump in demand and prices over bird flu fears, will be eligible for partial compensation from the bloc's joint budget.
Apr 26, 2006 - 2:46:37 PM
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Pakistan culls 40,000 chickens to control the outbreak of H5 strain
Pakistan has culled around 40,000 chickens at six farms near the national capital, where confirmed cases of bird flu have come to fore, officials said Sunday.
Apr 25, 2006 - 8:14:37 PM
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Pakistan suspects first human case of bird flu
A man suspected to be Pakistan's first human case of bird flu was hospitalised near here Saturday.
Apr 23, 2006 - 7:31:37 PM
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Pakistan confirms fourth bird flu outbreak
Pakistan Friday confirmed an outbreak of bird flu at a chicken farm near the capital and announced the culling of 10,000 chickens there.
Apr 22, 2006 - 5:55:37 PM
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Madhya Pradesh relaxes ban on transporting poultry
With no fresh cases of bird flu being reported, Madhya Pradesh Friday relaxed a ban on transportation of poultry products except in one district in view of the losses suffered by poultry owners, officials said.
Apr 22, 2006 - 5:49:37 PM
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Fresh bird flu scare in Pakistan
Pakistan Thursday ordered the culling of over 16,000 chickens in the vicinity of a poultry farm near Islamabad following reports of a poultry death due to suspected avian flu. The food and agriculture ministry ordered the culling around Tarlai after reports that a bird had died at a poultry farm there Wednesday night.
Apr 20, 2006 - 10:53:37 PM
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Thousand birds die in Orissa poultry farm
Over a thousand chickens have died in a poultry farm in Orissa, a media report said Tuesday, though officials confirmed the deaths of only five birds and said it had nothing to do with avian flu.
Apr 18, 2006 - 2:12:37 PM
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Pakistan confirms bird flu outbreak near Islamabad
Pakistan Sunday confirmed a second outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain at a poultry farm near its capital Islamabad.
Apr 18, 2006 - 8:15:37 AM
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WHO confirms Indonesia's 33rd bird flu victim
UN health officials confirmed that a poultry worker in West Sumatra is infected with the bird flu virus, bringing the number of human cases in Indonesia to 33, a health ministry official said Tuesday.
Apr 12, 2006 - 1:33:37 PM
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Bird flu small dark cloud on world economy: IMF
Despite an upbeat report card on the workings of the world's financial systems, the International Monetary Fund Tuesday saw a few dark clouds on the horizon - including worries about the impact of a potential bird-flu pandemic. A global avian flu outbreak in humans could cause high absenteeism in the financial industry, interfering with payments, clearing, settlements, trading and communications, the IMF warned in its periodic evaluation of the international finance systems, the Global Financial Stability Report.
Apr 12, 2006 - 1:28:37 PM
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More donor money needed for bird flu: UN official
Donor nations should be prepared to pledge hundreds of millions more dollars to combat bird flu as the H5N1 virus affects more developing nations, a senior UN official said Monday.
Apr 10, 2006 - 11:53:37 PM
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First case of H5N1 virus confirmed in Britain
The first case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was confirmed in Britain Thursday following tests on a decomposed swan floating in the harbour of a Scottish town.
Apr 7, 2006 - 3:44:37 AM
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Bird flu scare: Bangladesh burns Indian chicks
Bangladesh's paramilitary border police seized nearly 16,000 one-day-old smuggled Indian chickens and set them ablaze out of fear of bird flu epidemic spreading from across the border, officials said Saturday.
Apr 3, 2006 - 7:04:37 AM
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Avian flu lab likely in Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary
Rajasthan, home to the sprawling Bharatpur bird sanctuary, plans to open a laboratory to test for the avian flu virus.
Mar 27, 2006 - 4:11:37 PM
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U.S. Unlikely To Have Enough Vaccines To Stop Avian Flu Pandemic
A group of medical experts who attended a national avian flu conference last fall believe there is little chance the United States will be able to manufacture and stockpile enough vaccine or antiviral medication to stop a bird flu pandemic should the virus mutate into a form that can be spread easily from human to human, according to a survey led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The results of the survey will be published in the June 2006 issue of the journal Global Public Health.
Mar 22, 2006 - 8:09:37 AM
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Third bird flu case among humans confirmed in Egypt
Egyptian officials confirmed on Tuesday a third case of bird flu among humans three days after announcing the death of a woman by the deadly virus.
Mar 22, 2006 - 1:43:37 AM
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Pakistan confirms presence of bird flu
Pakistan's authorities confirmed Tuesday the presence of deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country, an official statement said.
Mar 22, 2006 - 1:34:37 AM
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Attractive birds more immune against bird flu
A research team at Uppsala University, Sweden has shown in a new study, published in the journal Acta Zoologica, that the size of the spot on a male collared flycatcher's forehead reflects how well the immune defence system combats viruses such as avian influenza. The white spot is also attractive to female birds searching for a mate.
Mar 21, 2006 - 2:36:37 AM
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Culling operations completed in Maharashtra
Culling operations in four Maharashtra villages that reported India's latest cases of bird flu have been completed but house-to-house mopping up will continue for a few days, it was announced Monday.
Mar 21, 2006 - 2:19:37 AM
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Minor mutations in avian flu virus increase chances of human infection
The H5N1 avian influenza virus, commonly known as "bird flu," is a highly contagious and deadly disease in poultry. So far, its spread to humans has been limited, with 177 documented severe infections, and nearly 100 deaths in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, China, Iraq, and Turkey as of March 14, 2006, according to the World Health Organization.
Mar 19, 2006 - 8:25:37 PM
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Egypt reports second suspected human case of bird flu
An Egyptian man has been suspected to be infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus, the second human infection reported in the north African country in two days, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported Sunday.
Mar 19, 2006 - 8:21:37 PM
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Bhopal shrugs off flu scare
The bird flu scare may have kept people away from chicken in many places, but not the residents of Bhopal, India who continue to relish on their favourite chicken dishes following slash in the poultry prices.
Mar 19, 2006 - 8:16:37 PM
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Egypt confirms first human death of bird flu
Egypt announced Saturday that a woman had died of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu, the first human death of avian influenza in the populous north African country.
Mar 19, 2006 - 8:15:37 PM
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Poultry deaths raise concern in Tamil Nadu
For the first time since the avian flu virus was reported in India in February, the death of poultry birds in Tamil Nadu has raised serious concerns with owners rushing to veterinary centres.
Mar 19, 2006 - 8:12:37 PM
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India takes proactive steps to contain bird flu
The Indian government has launched proactive steps to contain the spread of bird flu in 38 districts in Maharashra after four villages in the state reported fresh avian flu cases this week, even as there were fears of the disease breaking out in Madhya Pradesh.
Mar 17, 2006 - 1:59:37 PM
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Migratory birds leaving India, bird flu fears recede
Hundreds of thousands of migratory birds are starting to leave for their summer homes in Russian Siberia, China and Western Europe - and fading gradually with them is the bird flu scare in Jammu and Kashmir.
Mar 13, 2006 - 8:22:37 PM
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WHO confirms 21st human bird flu death in Indonesia
The WHO has confirmed that a four-year-old boy was Indonesia's 21st bird-flu fatality, a senior health ministry official said Friday.
Mar 10, 2006 - 9:24:37 PM
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Bird flu outbreak confirmed in Russia
A bird flu outbreak has been confirmed at a bird product processing plant in southern Russia, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
Mar 10, 2006 - 9:22:37 PM
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China reports 10th human death from bird flu
China confirmed Wednesday that a nine-year-old girl had died from H5N1 avian influenza in the eastern province of Zhejiang, raising the human death toll from the virus to 10 in the country.
Mar 8, 2006 - 9:47:37 PM
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Chicken flies high on airline menus again
With the threat of avian flu fading and no fresh case being reported in the last 15 days, many airlines in India are back with poultry products on flight menus.
Mar 8, 2006 - 9:39:37 PM
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Poland confirms H5N1 virus in wild swans
European Union newcomer Poland Monday confirmed the presence of H5N1 bird flu virus in two dead wild swans.
Mar 8, 2006 - 4:55:37 AM
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Human bird flu deaths rise to 21 in Indonesia
A four-year-old Indonesian boy who died this week was infected with bird flu, a health official confirmed Saturday, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 21.
Mar 6, 2006 - 5:25:37 PM
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Hong Kong on alert following suspected bird flu death
Hong Kong was on alert against human cases of bird flu after a man Saturday died of suspected H5N1 infection in southern China, close to the border with the territory.
Mar 6, 2006 - 5:22:37 PM
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Novavax, Bharat Biotech to develop pandemic flu vaccine
Amid growing concern over avian influenza, two major pharma companies - Novavax Inc. and Bharath Biotech International - announced Monday a tie up to develop a pandemic influenza vaccine for India and Southeast Asian markets.
Mar 6, 2006 - 5:10:37 PM
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Hong Kong bans Chinese chickens after bird flu death confirmed
Hong Kong has banned live chicken and pet bird imports from China after confirmation that a 32-year-old man died of bird flu after visiting a market near the border, officials said Monday.
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Flu pandemic infected one in five
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Stigma preventing leprosy-cured from getting jobs
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