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Indonesia and WHO are tense around the avian flu vaccine
Tensions between the World Health Organization (WHO) and Indonesia on sharing bird flu virus samples have not shown signs of improvement. Indonesian Health Minister Siti…
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Southeast Asia actively protects against H5N1
Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam all want to produce avian influenza vaccines as soon as they find an appropriate technology partner to avoid dependence on Western pharma…
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There has been a vaccine to prevent bird flu
The fight against bird flu has entered a new stage. An independent team of experts has recommended the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use a vaccine to prevent…
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Vaccine is resistant to bird flu
Scientists at GlaxoSmithKline in Hong Kong say they have successfully tested a vaccine against bird flu with a very small dose. The second test of this vaccine showed th…
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Avian influenza virus has changed
The source of the Department of Animal Health (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) on March 13 affirmed that the results of gene sequencing of influenza virus…
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Japan discovered a new outbreak of bird flu
The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture today (29-1) confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu and the third outbreak in the country this month was discovered at a ranch in Taka…
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Indonesia: Avian flu is a national disaster
Indonesian Planning Minister Paskah Suzetta said on Monday that the country will declare a bird flu as a national disaster to help the government access special funds to…
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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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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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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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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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No vaccine against H5N1 has been detected in Vietnam
A H5N1 strain of resistant to all vaccines was discovered in Chinese poultry, potentially causing a new pandemic. In Vietnam, Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan a…
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Identify the gene that lethal in the H5N1 virus
Chinese scientists have identified a gene in the H5N1 virus that is thought to cause the virus's virulence to poultry, paving the way for the development of new, more ef…
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China confirmed that bird flu variants
According to the VNA, on November 10, the head of the laboratory consulted China National Avian Influenza, Ms. Chenhua Lan, confirmed for the first time the variant bird…