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The Ministry of Health must agree, the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) has just been clinically tested. But the ministry also awaits the results of…
Yesterday China announced three cases of bird flu. All three of them are in the plague-prone areas of Hunan and Anhui provinces.
Roche said that in the first death, the patient was initially prescribed amantadine (an antiviral drug that treats influenza with side effects on the central nervous sys…
Professor Robert Webster said the human body with AIDS (weakened immune system) will be a shelter and
The risk of outbreaks and the occurrence of avian influenza is very large, yet hundreds of farming households living on vegetable cultivation in the 3.4.5 ward Hiep Than…
Talking to PV, Mr. Hoang Van Tham, deputy director of Phu Tho Veterinary Department, said that from November 13 to 14, bird flu has appeared in a household in Dong Trac…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun investigating whether there is a link between the use of Tamiflu and the deaths of 12 Japanese children in Japanese M…
The World Health Organization warns that currently developing human bird flu vaccines will not work much once a pandemic occurs. The reason is that they do not target th…
The US Food and Drug Safety Agency raised concerns about the safety of using anti-Tamiflu drugs in children. In a memorandum published on November 17, 2005, the agency s…
There are two new outbreaks in China despite hundreds of millions of children being vaccinated. Reports of bird flu take place almost daily, showing great challenges in…
Research by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology shows that, compared to when it first appeared in Vietnam, H5N1 has had a slight change in genetics and pa…
The US and Japan have issued a temporary ban on poultry imports from Canada after bird flu was discovered on a duck in British Columbia.
On November 21, authorities in Rome (Italy) confiscated 3 tons of Chinese and Thai chicken imported under fake labels as Brazilian products.
On November 22, the Department of Animal Health stated in Cao Bang recently that avian influenza has been detected in 3 livestock households in 2 wards of Song Bang and…