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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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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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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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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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China successfully tested human bird flu vaccine
Chinese researchers reported on August 28 that initial tests of the country's human-made bird flu vaccine have been quite safe and effective. This is considered a happy…
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Prevention of bird flu spreads to humans
Avian influenza (influenza A / H5N1) caused by influenza A / H5N1 virus, is a highly contagious disease, easy to recur, no specific treatment drugs can cause death and d…
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Find out why H5N1 causes high mortality in humans
The mechanism of bird flu virus death is similar to that of the 1918 pandemic flu, that is
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The WHO suspects that H5N1 has spread from person to person
On May 24, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the H5N1 virus could have spread from person-to-person to an Indonesian family and killed six people. But so far, exp…
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Spain detected bird flu
Spain has just confirmed the first case of H5N1 infection was found in a diving bird in the northern Alava province. The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture says there is no…
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Bird flu concern in Indonesia
Seven people in the same village were hospitalized in Indonesia and suspected officials were due to bird flu. This group is in Karo district in the province of North Sum…
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Ministry of Health warns: There is a risk of H5N1 mutation
Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan has just quoted the World Health Organization (WHO) warning, the risk of strain of influenza A / H5N1 virus can spread from per…
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New method of early identification of H5N1 variant
Japanese researchers have found a new way to identify early variant variants of avian influenza viruses that can be transmitted from human to human. The new method gives…
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Finding out why H5N1 is hard to jump from person to person
The killer virus H5N1 prefers to reside in cells deep in the lungs, rather than the top part of the respiratory tract as with other flu strains, two recent studies found.
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H5N1 virus lives in human blood
Thai scientists first discovered a large amount of H5N1 virus in the blood of a patient who died in December last year. This surprised the scientific community because b…
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Bird flu can cause intestinal illness
H5N1 virus can cause disease in humans through the intestines, not just through the respiratory tract, and sometimes diarrhea is a symptom of bird flu. It is a warning o…