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Two flu drugs are no longer working
The United States recommends that the two anti-influenza drugs amantadine and rimantadine be discontinued, after evidence that they are completely useless against the cu…
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Danger from pets
Up to 150 diseases that pets can infect you, some of which are dangerous, even fatal. The type of disease spread by pets is commonly referred to as zoonoses. In 1994, He…
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The whole country has no bird flu
According to the Department of Animal Health (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), up to now, 21/21 provinces have passed 21 days without outbreaks. At presen…
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Flu in children
Children often get colds at least 6-7 times a year. In the first year of kindergarten, children have a 50% higher incidence of disease than children who are cared for at…
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Treating flu drug aerosol therapy and sauna
The common medicinal herbs used for inhalation and steaming to cure flu are usually bamboo leaves, perilla, marjoram, pig shoots, patchouli ... These are often plants th…
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Need to distinguish between regular flu and H5N1 flu
On November 12, representatives of the Ministry of Health said: Currently, the bird flu situation has many complicated developments, many people are still vague about th…
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The whole world is worried about outbreaks of bird flu?
Although the influenza A virus in poultry is not usually infectious to humans, there have been many cases of human infection with bird flu since 1997; These cases are of…
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Happy couples have trouble getting flu
A team at the University of Birmingham, UK, found stressful life events that affect the immune response of people who get the flu shot every year. The immune response is…
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Hospitals will struggle if there is a bird flu pandemic
If a pandemic occurs with flu strains spread from person to person, Vietnam will have about 10% of the population infected, ie nearly 8.2 million people. Only 5% of thes…
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Why does the flu virus proliferate in winter?
The H5N1 avian influenza virus thrives during the cold season from October to March, corresponding to the peak activity period of normal human influenza viruses.
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Korea: Drugs to treat bird flu from kimchi!
Korean scientists said they extracted their traditional kimchi with a compound that could be used to treat bird flu quite effectively.
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Eggs and poultry are safe?
While the bird flu is experiencing complicated developments and the risk of a pandemic coming up, many people question the safety of egg products as well as poultry meat.
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H5N1: Need to add new drugs
Speaking to a committee investigating the risk of an outbreak of bird flu in the British Senate, Jan Slingenberg, an official of the Food and Agriculture Organization of…
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1918 virus replication to prevent the current influenza epidemic
This H1N1 virus has caused a global pandemic, killing 20 million - 50 million people, including healthy adults. Scientists believe it is a variant of the avian influenza…