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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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Asian rehearsal against bird flu
From 2 April to 3 April, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners in Asia will conduct an anti-bird exercise to test Asia's ability to cope with the evolutio…
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FAO calls for emergency bird flu aid
On February 7, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that the lack of capital and political will in some countries is making it difficult to…
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Drugs against bird flu
Thailand's government-run pharmaceutical organization (GPO) has announced that it has produced a very effective and safe anti-viral drug in the fight against bird flu.
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WHO: Tamiflu drug is expired
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), poor Asian countries are facing a dilemma about whether to store Tamiflu when their countries' drug depots are about to…
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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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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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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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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…
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FAO: H5N1 can cause domino effect
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is concerned about a chain collapse effect once it is available
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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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WHO: H5N1 infection may be due to close contact and for too long
According to Maria Cheng, a spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Indonesia, seven members of a family in northern Sumatra island died in May because bird…
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WHO placed drug company Tamiflu on alert
The most recent Indonesian victim died of bird flu, which caused the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday to put drug manufacturer Tamiflu, Roche, on alert: hoardin…
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Bird flu to Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan has just become the latest bird flu epidemic, while Nigeria is showing signs of spreading. China and Indonesia, each country has one more woman to die. It see…
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Experience against Vietnamese bird flu can help Turkey
Experts say Vietnam's significant progress in controlling bird flu could be a valuable experience for new epidemics like Turkey. Recent tests showed that 15 more people…