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Bird flu hits 11 provinces of Vietnam
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 9 months ago
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Bird flu continues to spread wide in Vietnam with another newly-infected northern Dien Bien province, raising the number of Vietnamese provinces hit by the virus to 11, according to Vietnam's Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture...
One jab for all types of flu?!
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility Scientists unveiled lab-made human antibodies that can disable several types of influenza, including highly-lethal H5N1 bird flu and the “Spanish Flu” strain that killed tens of millions in 1918. Tested in mice, the antibodies work by binding to a previously...
Tags: journal nature, Nature, bird flu
Victoria Times-Colonist, Canada: Twelve thousand chickens face cull in B.C. avian flu outbreak
Beijing :: China | 9 months ago
Credibility Avian influenza has been found on a second poultry farm in Abbotsford, but it appears to be the same less-virulent strain as found on a farm last month, officials said Wednesday. The virus was found on a farm within the 3 km quarantine and testing zone...
Bird flu confirmed in Siliguri, culling begins
New Delhi :: India | 9 months ago
Credibility The blood sample report of a fowl found dead in Pendong village in Kurseong sub-division, tested at Bhopal laboratory, confirmed the presence of bird flu," senior district official Kasturi Sengupta said. The official, now looking after the SDO's office,...
Tags: bird flu
TVNZ.co.nz: Bird flu vaccine still in short supply
Geneva :: Switzerland | 9 months ago
Credibility Reuters Drug companies have increased their capacity to make bird flu vaccines by 300% in the past two years but will still need four years to meet global demand in the event of a pandemic, a study says. It also said doses of vaccine tailored to the...
Tags: pandemic influenza, developing countries, influenza vaccine, flu vaccine, bird flu
Team finds secret that could stem flu viruses
Bethesda :: MD :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Scientists led by a team from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered what they describe as the Achilles' heel of the influenza virus, a finding that suggests it might be possible to end the ritual of the annual flu shot. Yearly vaccination is currently...
Tags: flu virus, flu vaccinate, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, flu strain, bird flu
Mid-west Nepal on high alert of bird flu virus
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 9 months ago
Credibility After the bird flu virus (H5N1) was confirmed again in eastern Nepal, Nepali districts bordering India have been put on high alert, Nepali national news agency RSS reported on Monday. Districts of mid-western region are rated on high alert after the...
Tags: bird flu
Scientists close in on universal flu vaccine
Boston :: MA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility They have discovered anti-bodies that neutralise multiple strains of the influenza virus, and a so-called "pan-therapy" or broad-spectrum vaccine could be just five years away...Dr Robert Liddington from the Burnham Institute in California says researchers...
Tags: bird flu, flu vaccine, human antibody, h5n1 bird, scientists close
Bird flu virus found again in Nepal
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 9 months ago
Credibility A health official says a deadly strain of bird flu virus has been found poultry in southeastern Nepal just days after officials declared the Himalayan nation free of the disease. Agriculture Ministry spokesman Hari Dahal says workers have begun to slaughter...
Tags: Nepal, bird flu, starts killing
Bird flu kills one in Vietnam—officials
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 9 months ago
Credibility A 23-year-old woman in Vietnam has died of bird flu, medical officials told AFP on Sunday, in the country which has the world's second-highest death toll from the virus. She died on Saturday, said the director of the hospital where she was being treated...
Tags: bird flu, Vietnam News Agency, Quang Ninh, ninh province
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