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Bird flu pandemic just three mutations away: Scientists
New Delhi :: India | 11 months ago
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A devastating bird flu pandemic seems close to be a real threat, as scientists claim to have found the deadly virus is just "three mutations" away from evolving into a strain that could easily transmit from human to human. Avian H5N1 influenza can
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Science Journal Science Publishes Helpful Terrorist How-To for Biomedical Warfare
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
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Have you inexplicably felt strangely comfortable opening your closet late at night? Finally convinced yourself that that guy from that place didn't overhear you reciting your Social Security number?...Just in time, the journal Science has decided to
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H5N1 human pandemic 'possible'
Amsterdam :: NY :: USA | 11 months ago
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The H5N1 bird flu virus could change into a form able to spread rapidly between humans, scientists have warned. Researchers have identified five genetic changes that could allow the virus to start a deadly pandemic. Writing in the journal Science ,
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Mutant bird flu would be airborne, scientists say
Rotterdam :: Netherlands | 11 months ago
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There are less than six degrees of separation when it comes to making a deadly virus transmissible through the air. To be more accurate, it can take as few as five genetic mutations to make a deadly spread easily from person to person, according to a
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70 Percent Drop in Demand for Chicken
Asia :: Philippines | 12 months ago
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November 2005 Demand for poultry in the local market has dropped by as much as 70 percent following the outbreak of bird flu in Asia, Europe and some Arab countries. Workers in poultry shops have confirmed a 60 to 70 percent drop in sales, according
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Boy's case isolated, bird flu outbreak unlikely
Guangzhou :: China | 12 months ago
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All of the contacts of a 2-year-old boy who tested positive for the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland were either asymptomatic or tested negative for bird flu, authorities of the special administrative region and
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Hong Kong confirms case of bird flu
Sydney :: Canada | 12 months ago
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Kong hospitals are on alert after a two-year-old boy was confirmed to have contracted bird flu. The boy was admitted to hospital a week ago with convulsions after arriving from the southern Chinese city of Guangdong. The Centre for Health Protection
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Virus Alert as Two Die in Bahrain
Manama :: Bahrain | 12 months ago
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March 2003 Two women have mysteriously died after being struck by a virus, Member of Parliament Abdulnabi Salman told Bahraini newspaper Al-Ayam. He called upon Bahrain's Health Ministry to inquire into the deaths, similar to those from a mysterious
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Book tells of roboticist who helped build an android replica of sci-fi author
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | 12 months ago
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In How to Build an Android, David Dufty tells the stranger-than-fiction story of roboticist David Hanson, who in 2005 cobbled together a group of technology experts to design and build an android replica of science-fiction author Philip K...
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10-year-old Cambodian girl dies from bird flu: WHO
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | 12 months ago
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A 10-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday, the country's third fatality from the virulent disease this year. The child developed a fever and shortness of breath on May 20 and died on Sunday,
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