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Japan discovered more H5N1 outbreak
Officials in Japan have confirmed that the recent bird flu outbreak on a farm was caused by the H5N1 virus. This outbreak was found on a farm in Hyuga, the second outbre…
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Bird flu attacks Western Europe
Avian flu is threatening Europe. After Hungary and Russia, in turn a farm in Suffolk, eastern England, more than 2,600 turkeys died of the H5N1 virus.
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You deal with bird flu
Tens of thousands of turkeys have been destroyed on a Suffolk farm to prevent the outbreak of H5N1 in the UK. Authorities are also set
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He destroyed 150,000 turkeys with poison gas
More than 150,000 turkeys on a farm in Suffolk, eastern England, have been destroyed by toxic gas after officials confirmed the H5N1 virus appeared here.
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Issue new guidelines for diagnosis and prevention of infection with influenza A (H5N1) in humans
The Ministry of Health has issued new guidelines on diagnosis, management and prevention of influenza A (H5N1) infection in humans. This document replaces the guidelines…
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China successfully developed a new vaccine against H5N1 for humans
According to the Xinhua News Agency, on January 6, an official from China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it had developed a new recombinant vacci…
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H5N1 virus has a genetic variation
The public is worried about a global pandemic, as the World Health Organization's previous warning. But does this happen?
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Bird flu comes to Thailand
For the first time in 6 months, an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu has occurred in Thailand. The Thai government has confirmed the outbreak of the disease after 100 ducks in P…
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H5N1 deformed in Egypt
The World Health Organization, WHO, said that in the last two cases of H5N1 human avian influenza in Egypt last month there was a deformed virus that reduced the effecti…
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Detection of genetically modified H5N1 virus
Scientists have found genetically modified strains of bird flu in two patients in Egypt. They are resistant to drugs commonly used to treat bird flu, World Health Organi…
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The strain of avian influenza in Korea differs in Southeast Asia
Last month's outbreak of avian influenza in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, South Korea, was caused by a strain of H5N1 virus different from the H5N1 strain in Southeast A…
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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…