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Temporarily stop importing birds and ornamental birds
On October 28, Cao Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development signed a decision to suspend the import of all types of poultry and domestic birds from abroad…
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China: forced poultry traders to go for testing
Recently, Beijing authorities confiscated 182 wild birds from traders; At the same time, start sterilizing three times a day the largest poultry wholesale market in the…
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HCMC: Must control 100% of poultry products
In the meeting to implement emergency action to prevent bird flu has just been held on October 29, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan…
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Can vaccination with Vigigrip prevent bird flu?
Vaxigrip is a flu vaccine of 2005/2006. This is an injection suspension pre-loaded in a 0.5 ml syringe or in a 0.5 ml ampoule. This vaccine is called VAXIGRIP, newly pro…
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March 2012: Launching H5N1 vaccine for poultry
The Central Veterinary Drug Company (NAVETCO) will bring the H5N1 avian influenza vaccine to the market right in March 2012. This proceeds to completely replace imported…
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UK: Clinically testing vaccines against all strains of influenza
A company in the UK is conducting clinical trials of the world's first universal flu vaccine to bring great health benefits to the community.
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Thailand: one more person infected with bird flu
A hospital in Indonesia also received 2 father and son with symptoms similar to bird flu. However, laboratory tests from both the father (63 years old) and the child (22…
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Governments take urgent action against bird flu
The fight against global bird flu has been more urgent since October 22, 2005, after many governments strengthened self-protection measures in money, reserve drugs and i…
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Thailand: 7-year-old baby does not spread bird flu from her father
On October 22, Thai health officials confirmed that 7-year-old Ronnarit Benpad did not spread disease from his father - a Thai man confirmed to be dead from bird flu.
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Bird flu spreads to Sweden
So far, this toxic bird flu virus has been detected in several European countries such as Greece, Romania, Turkey, Russia and Croatia. It is thought that they spread to…
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Avian flu: the situation is more complicated
Even though the countries have all touched bird flu and every country has its own policy to deal with influenza, the disease continues to spread to the west and the late…
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Add a bird flu outbreak in Russia
Another Russian region, Tambov, 400 kilometers southeast of the capital, Moscow, has been confirmed to be affected by the H5N1 strain of bird flu, Reuters news agency re…
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H5N1 has attacked Europe
H5N1, the most virulent avian flu virus ever, has caused the deaths of more than 60 victims in Asia, who have just struck Europe in shock after some test results show th…
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In the face of the risk of a global flu pandemic: Staggering hundreds of clues
Despite warnings about pandemic bird outbreaks, people and authorities in some localities are still indifferent or have not taken drastic measures to prevent it.