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CDC lab containing deadly virus suffers power outage
July 12, 2008 — By ALISON YOUNG (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) — A laboratory building that contains a deadly strain of avian flu and other germs is among four that lost power for more than an hour Friday when a backup generator system failed again at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The outage […]
Study finds key factors behind bird flu outbreaks
Study finds key factors behind bird flu outbreaks WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ducks, people and rice paddies are the primary forces driving outbreaks of avian influenza in Thailand and Vietnam, and the number of chickens is less pivotal, scientists said on Wednesday. U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization experts and others looked at […]
Battling Bird Flu With Better Public Information
As bird flu spreads, restaurants serving chicken and ducks have lost all customers. At the 371 restaurants in Korea that serve chicken, consumption fell from 13356 chickens on April 1 to just 3339 by May 12. …
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Bird Flu Medicine Toxic for Teens
Concerns are rising over side effect of bird flu drug Tamiflu on teenagers. Tamiflu is Swiss-based Hoffman-La Roche’s antiviral for general influenza A and …
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Bird flu library
… research scientists, led by Sea Lane Biotechnologies, has created the first comprehensive monoclonal antibody libraries against avian influenza (H5N1) using samples from survivors of the 2005/2006 bird flu outbreak in Turkey. …
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Bird flu outbreak in Tripura
Avian influenza is back in Tripura. The disease resurfaced within one week of declaring the state as bird flu-free. Sources said the disease has resurfaced at Mohanpur, about 25 km away from Agartala. Top officials from the veterinary department and district administration will meet on Wednesday morning to take stock of the situation. […]
Bird flu remains strong threat to Australia - ABC Online
Bird flu remains strong threat to AustraliaABC Online, Australia - 21 minutes agoThe CSIRO is warning the threats of bird flu entering Australia and becoming pandemic are as real as ever. It says five years after the current strain of …
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Father ‘probably caught bird flu from son’
Tests on a father diagnosed with bird flu in China have show he ‘probably’ caught the disease from his dying son. Writing in The Lancet, Dr Jeremy Farrar, of Vietnam’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said: “Whatever the underlying …
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Father ‘probably caught bird flu from son’
Tests on a father diagnosed with bird flu in China have show he ‘probably’ caught the disease from his dying son. Writing in The Lancet, Dr Jeremy Farrar, of Vietnam’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said: “Whatever the underlying …
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