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The new flu pandemic could kill 62 million people
A similarly dangerous influenza virus that once caused the Spanish flu in 1918 could kill 62 million people in the world if it breaks out again, Crawl researchers
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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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Pandemic flu may rise from the glacier
Scientists are concerned that global warming may melt ice in lakes and rivers, freeing up the flu viruses that have been imprisoned for several decades. Once exited, the…
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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…
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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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There is a risk of pandemic influenza with the changing H5N1 strain
If two strains of influenza A and B virus are joined together, it will create a dangerous virus with high virulence and easily spread from person to person.
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China has the 10th bird flu patient
An additional case of bird flu occurred in Sichuan province, while the whole Chinese territory raised vigilance before the Lunar New Year and the migratory season to the…
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Prospects from vaccine against bird flu
Sanofi Pasteur, a French pharmaceutical company, has announced an encouraging start to the test results of the first bird flu vaccine. The company said it had responded…
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Play cards to learn how to defend yourself against bird flu
The danger of a pandemic, the way of infection of viruses, telephones and addresses of medical facilities ... all of them are printed in condensation. This is a new meas…
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The H5N1 vaccine will be useless for a pandemic
The World Health Organization warns that currently developing human bird flu vaccines will not work much once a pandemic occurs. The reason is that they do not target th…
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Japan announced plans to combat bird flu in humans
Japan has just announced a plan to deal with bird flu in the event of an outbreak. Under this plan, a pandemic could do 170,000 to 640,000 Japanese deaths, and between 5…
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APEC wants to cooperate with bird flu
Leaders from 21 member countries and territories of the Asia-Pacific region called for a collaborative effort to prevent bird flu pandemic, which emphasized solidarity i…
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Google Earth provides a global bird flu pandemic map
The bird flu is raging all over the world, and Vietnam is one of the
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Health care facilities must be able to cope with epidemics
The health sector must also focus on training for doctors - lower level doctors know how to deal with pandemic flu. As for drugs, the Deputy Prime Minister affirmed: