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Hong Kong bird tests positive for H5N1
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Hong Kong authorities said Friday that a dead chicken found in the southern Chinese territory had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.
Pigeon tests positive for H5N1 in Hong Kong
May 02, 2009 |
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Hong Kong authorities said Saturday that a dead pigeon found in the city had tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus.
Bird flu outbreak confirmed in Tibet
Feb 21, 2008 |
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The Chinese government has confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu in Tibet.
Japan quail farm bird flu 'not H5N1': govt
Mar 01, 2009 |
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The Japanese agriculture ministry said Sunday an outbreak of bird flu at a quail farm was not H5N1, the form of the disease that can be deadly to humans.
Spread of bird flu strains slowed at some borders
Feb 27, 2008 |
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Several strains of the bird flu virus that raged across southern China were blocked from entering Thailand and Vietnam, UC Irvine researchers have discovered.
Pandemic mutations in bird flu revealed
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Scientists have discovered how bird flu adapts in patients, offering a new way to monitor the disease and prevent a pandemic, according to research published in the August issue of the Journal of General Virology. Highly ...
New research shows how H5N1 virus causes disease
Sep 28, 2007 |
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H5N1 influenza, also known as avian influenza, is considered a major global threat to human health, with high fatality rates. While little had been known about the specific effects of H5N1 on organs and cells targeted by ...
Horse antibodies against the bird flu virus H5N1 are effective as treatment in mice
Mar 28, 2006 |
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Antibodies against the bird flu virus H5N1, derived from horses, prevent mice infected with H5N1 from dying from the virus. A study published today in the open access journal Respiratory Research reveals that a dose of 100 ...
Novel pandemic flu vaccine effective against H5N1 in mice
Mar 01, 2009 |
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Vaccines against H5N1 influenza will be critical in countering a possible future pandemic. Yet public health experts agree that the current method of growing seasonal influenza vaccines in chicken eggs is slow and inefficient.
New vaccine strategy might offer protection against pandemic influenza strains
May 18, 2009 |
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A novel vaccine strategy using virus-like particles (VLPs) could provide stronger and longer-lasting influenza vaccines with a significantly shorter development and production time than current ones, allowing public health ...
Scientists reconstruct migration of avian flu virus
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Mar 05, 2007 |
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UC Irvine researchers have combined genetic and geographic data of the H5N1 avian flu virus to reconstruct its history over the past decade. They found that multiple strains of the virus originated in the Chinese province ...
A DNA-based vaccine shows promise against avian flu
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Though it has fallen from the headlines, a global pandemic caused by bird flu still has the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on high alert. Yet, to date, the only vaccines that have ...
Does new swine flu virus kill by causing a 'cytokine storm'?
May 05, 2009 |
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The swine flu outbreak that began in Mexico and continues to spread around the globe may be particularly dangerous for young, otherwise healthy adults because it contains genetic components of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, ...
New research helps explain why bird flu has not caused a pandemic
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ON ...
Study: Live H5N1 virus vaccines effective
Sep 12, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say live, weakened versions of differing strains of avian flu viruses have offered protection when tested in mice and ferrets.
