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87 Chinese people died of bird flu H7N9
China is strengthening measures to prevent the spread of H7N9 bird flu, which has killed dozens of people, including the ban on the sale of live poultry.
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Spain destroyed more than 17,000 H5N8 suspected ducks
Spanish authorities announced that they would destroy more than 17,000 ducks after discovering the strain on a duck farm in Catalonia.
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H7N9 influenza virus changes to high virulence
The results of gene sequencing of viruses isolated in patients showed that influenza A / H7N9 virus has changed from low virulence to high virulence in poultry.
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The first Taiwanese patient died of influenza H7N9 infection
Xinhua News Agency cited Taiwan's latest outbreak of the Department of Disease Control, saying that the first case of H7N9 in 2017 on the island, identified in early Feb…
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Appeared new outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Quang Ninh province
According to the latest information from the Department of Animal Health (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), as of May 2, the country has just emerged a new…
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Influenza A virus (H7N9) in China has been highly virulent
The World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization announced that there has been a record of changes in influenza A (H7N9) from low virulence to hig…
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Highly virulent H7N9 influenza virus has the potential to cause a pandemic
According to the National Focal Point for International Health Regulation, Department of Preventive Medicine, the Ministry of Health, scientists have not previously rele…
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The most severe flu epidemic in 10 years, the US
The flu epidemic this year in the US can be very serious since the pandemic of swine flu - influenza A (H1N1) in 2009, according to US health officials.
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How dangerous is swine flu?
According to the Department of Preventive Medicine, influenza A / H1N1 is one of the current seasonal flu.
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In the near future there will be bird flu and it is even more dangerous than bird flu and swine flu
Until now, pigs and chickens are hosts that contain two types of flu that are the biggest threat to humans. Influenza strains can spread to humans, causing serious conse…
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China confirmed two more cases of H7N9 flu
Chinese health authorities on March 18 confirmed two more cases of H7N9 avian influenza virus infection in Hunan and Guangdong provinces.
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South Korea has more cases of bird flu in dogs
On March 24, South Korea announced it had discovered a number of cases of bird flu infection in dogs, thereby providing further evidence that the virus has spread to oth…
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Hong Kong prepares breakthrough vaccines against influenza H7N9
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have successfully developed a vaccine that could be the first in the world to create a shield against many types of infl…
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The discovery of five mutations in H5N1 determines the spread
A team of researchers published the results of the study in the journal Cell (USA) found that, 5 important positions on the genome of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, if…
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H7N9 virus can attack Vietnam and some Asian countries
H7N9 is an influenza A virus that has claimed the lives of about 100 people since it appeared in March 2013 in China.