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Avian influenza is a disease caused by the H5N1 virus amongst birds and poultry. It has claimed the life of many birds which had to be culled due to infection. The virus causing this disease in birds on mutation infects human and can prove to be fatal....
American researchers have developed a new Bird Flu vaccine designed to last longer and which could offer more protection against the deadly strain of Avian influenza. This vaccine, developed by study author Suresh Mittal and his team at Purdue...
Each new day is likely to enhance the inextricability of flu, as vaccines available to noose the deadly virus are fast loosing their potentials, claims the World Health Organization.
Is it victory of H5N1 virus over medical science or was their lack...
If everything goes well, then days are not far away when the tool to fight Bird-flu would be there in experts' hands. This hope sparked up after researchers at Griffith University Institute for Glycomics, in the leadership of Professor Mark Von...
The auspicious day of Christmas proved fatal for a 24-year-old woman from Jakarta, thanks to deadly bird flu that lulled her forever on this auspicious day after a long struggle of several days. With this death, total number of victims claimed by bird...
The risks of bird flu epidemic remain. Its transmission among humans is still being examined as a new transmission finding was alarming. Recently, a Chinese man had been infected with the H5N1 virus coming from contaminated birds. Soon after, his...
It's again the turn of thousands of turkeys, ducks and geese to fall victim to bird flu worriment. It's all happening at a Redgrave Park Farm near Diss. After the confirmation of avian flu in turkeys, about 6,500 birds are already being slaughtered...
Bird flu is one of the modern threats to human kind. Recently, it was discovered that the bird flu can be a threat to unborn babies. The dreaded H5N1 can be passed on in the mother's foetus.
The H5N1 is unlike the normal bird flue. Examination...
One of the most obvious and common bird flu measures taken across the Eurpoean continent is ordering for the bird flu vaccine. While Italy has ordered 12 million doses of bird flu vaccine, France has asked for 14 millon doses, besides 40 million doses of...
With bird flu hitting the European continent, the Americans have started hitting the information Web page with all their fears and doubts regarding bird flu. In fact, the bird flu hasn't actually hit them as yet, but it is always better to be armed...
Romania's veterinary and animal health authority, Alina Monea, got confirmed reports from London that the H5 virus sent for testing yesterday has turned out to be an H5N1 virus. Now, it is officially announced that Romania is under the bird flu...
The South-east Asian Rural Board has decided to regulate and wipe out bird flu from the face of Asia. In addition, it has also decided to set up a fund on the regional level that would eradicate all animal-related diseases in future. South-east Asian...
World Organization for Animal Health and Romanian officials has blocked off a H5 virus, which could possibly be the strain of H5N1 virus, causing bird flu. The virus has been sent for lab tests at laboratory in Weighbridge.
However, European Centre for...
The major concern of the Department of Health, Britain, is that with the winter flu setting in, children and older people above 65, suffering from asthma and diabetes, must visit their general practitioners for a winter flu vaccine.
The reasons are...
Teachers and students at a school in Wales are being offered anti-bird flu drugs after being in contact with a child suspected of contracting H7N2 virus.
The school staff is being treated with antiviral medication as a precaution, the...
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