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Facing the situation of bird flu in the direction of complicated developments, on 8/8, in Hanoi, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung chaired the meeting with the National Ste…
Two teenagers died of H5N1, confirmed by WHO, which turned Indonesia into the world's largest bird flu death site. Indonesian Ministry of Health officials for bi & ecir
On August 9, Ben Tre Veterinary Department sent a quick report to the Provincial People's Committee and the Steering Committee for Avian Influenza Prevention and Control…
The Thai Ministry of Public Health has just announced a shocking information: the use of illegal bird flu vaccine in animals may have helped the H5N1 virus to change and…
Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan has just quoted the World Health Organization (WHO) warning, the risk of strain of influenza A / H5N1 virus can spread from per…
A dead cat in Germany has just tested positive for H5N1 virus. The German Federal Animal Health Research Institute will conduct further tests to see if the H5N1 virus st…
On the morning of March 7, the People's Committee of Ha Tay province coordinated with the Ministry of Health to organize an environmental sanitation campaign to prevent…
Japanese researchers have found a new way to identify early variant variants of avian influenza viruses that can be transmitted from human to human. The new method gives…
On March 14, Hungary announced that it had successfully prepared a vaccine against the H5N1 virus. Meanwhile, bird flu continues to spread rapidly. This anti-H5N1 vaccin…
Azerbaijan health officials claim a stray dog in the country died of bird flu. This is considered the first time that the H5N1 virus has killed a dog.
Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia were selected to adjust Tamiflu treatment regimen in patients with A / H5N1 type influenza virus and other serious flu. The new regimen i…
On March 18, the Director of the Ministry of Agriculture's Animal Health Department (Ministry of Agriculture) confirmed that the avian influenza virus has mutated, with…
On March 21, the Pakistani government confirmed its first two outbreaks. Malaysia announced the discovery of a third outbreak within a week. Earlier, Egypt reported a th…
Following the success of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in the study of the production of H5N1 flu vaccine by the technology on monkey kidney cells,…
The killer virus H5N1 prefers to reside in cells deep in the lungs, rather than the top part of the respiratory tract as with other flu strains, two recent studies found.