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The new flu pandemic could kill 62 million people
A similarly dangerous influenza virus that once caused the Spanish flu in 1918 could kill 62 million people in the world if it breaks out again, Crawl researchers
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Do not let bird flu continue to spread
On December 22, the Prime Minister has sent Electricity to ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies; National Steering Committee for preve…
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Egypt discovered 3 more people infected with bird flu
Egypt has discovered three new cases of human avian flu, all of which belong to a family in the town of Zifta, Gharbiya province, 90 km north of Cairo. Office of the Wor…
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Bird flu threatens to
In the afternoon of December 26, at the meeting of the National Steering Committee for Avian Influenza, Deputy Director of Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Deve…
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Bird flu recurrence in the Mekong Delta: The epidemic is expanding!
The avian influenza epidemic is complicated and has a recurring trend in the Mekong Delta. Facing this situation, on December 28, MARD organized a conference to urgently…
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China: Dozens of students are hospitalized for suspected bird flu
Chinese officials said on Monday that 60 students and a teacher from a school in the north had to be hospitalized after a suspected bird flu outbreak.
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Egypt is puzzled by the evolution of bird flu
In just four days, Egypt witnessed 3 deaths from bird flu, bringing the total number of people killed by H5N1 virus in the country to 10 and causing concerns about the s…
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Zoning, stamping, not spreading
On December 31 morning, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung directed the prevention and control of avian influenza in Ca Mau province and the southern provinces of Hau river…
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Mekong River Delta: Urgently vaccinate new birds to re-herd
In early 2007, the fight against Avian Influenza (CGC) was in hot weather. Many of the words
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Monitoring and preventing bird flu in Vietnam
Next week, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Org…
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New prospects against avian influenza pandemic
A live but weakened H5N1 avian influenza vaccine, which opens up the prospect of a new generation of vaccines that can fight off strains of viruses that have changed fro…
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Detecting how the bird flu virus kills
The group of international scientists in Ho Chi Minh City has discovered how the H5N1 virus kills people and opens up the prospect of more effective prevention of epidem…
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Reproducing the H1N1 virus to find out H5N1
Scientists at the University of Washington (USA) have recreated the strain of H1N1 influenza virus (also called Spanish flu) to study the mechanism of infection of this…
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EU spent 28.3 million euros for bird flu research
The European Union (EU) yesterday announced it would spend 28.3 million euros (35.5 billion USD) on a new fund to study bird flu. Vietnam is one of the partners particip…
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Sparrow carrying H5N1
Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Studies (Hubei) have reported the discovery of the H5N1 virus on finches two years ago. This is the first time scienti…