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Monitoring and preventing bird flu in Vietnam
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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…

December 14, 2018
New prospects against avian influenza pandemic
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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…

December 14, 2018
Reproducing the H1N1 virus to find out H5N1
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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…

December 14, 2018
EU spent 28.3 million euros for bird flu research
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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…

December 14, 2018
It is people who spread avian influenza
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It is people who spread avian influenza

Migratory birds are not the main factor causing bird flu spread to the global scope. The statement has just been made by UN experts in stark contrast to previous stateme…

December 14, 2018
Avian influenza detection chip
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Avian influenza detection chip

Experts at the University of Colorado and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have successfully tried one

December 14, 2018
Korea destroyed poultry
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Korea destroyed poultry

Korean epidemiological sanitation officials will destroy 236,000 poultry, after an outbreak of influenza caused by the H5N1 virus was discovered in the country.

December 14, 2018
Many studies on avian influenza vaccines
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Many studies on avian influenza vaccines

Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Nha Trang Pasteur Institute, Regional Veterinary Center (Ho Chi Minh City) have different research projects on influenza A / H5N1…

December 14, 2018
Vietnam: Avian influenza threatens to reappear?
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Vietnam: Avian influenza threatens to reappear?

In early August last year, two more suspected cases of H5N1 were found on people who died despite a negative test. While the weather in the last months of the year is su…

December 14, 2018
Not to re-start bird flu
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Not to re-start bird flu

On August 22, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung sent an urgent request to the Chairman of the People's Committee of provinces and cities to ask for the highest effort to ca…

December 14, 2018
Thailand propagates bird flu at home
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Thailand propagates bird flu at home

Thai Ministry of Health is conducting a campaign to propagate avian influenza prevention and control to every household across the country, from Vietnam to Vietnam.

December 14, 2018
Vietnam - Laos cooperates to prevent bird flu
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Vietnam - Laos cooperates to prevent bird flu

On August 24, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Health of Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding with the Lao Ministry of Health on cooperation in preventing bird flu and…

December 14, 2018
Prevention of bird flu spreads to humans
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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…

December 14, 2018