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How much do you know about bird flu?

With a mortality rate of more than 50%, the bird flu outbreak in Asia is beginning to gain worldwide publicity.

But she promised that if there was a bird flu outbreak in poultry there would be support for farmers suffering economic loss.

FAO reminded consumers that avian influenza is not a food-borne disease and that the bird flu virus is killed by the heat of normal cooking.

Tests performed during an investigation to determine the source of exposure found a duck positive for bird flu in the woman's household.

As introductions said, bird flu often emerges on sparrows, fowls and migrant birds are relatively easy to suffer from this kind of disease.

Last month, the company reported the skin patch helped boost a bird flu vaccine so well that people appear to be protected by a single dose.

If we carry on like this, bird flu and swine flu will be just the beginning of a century of viral outbreaks.

IN RECENT weeks, the world's public health officials have been afflicted with a sort of pandemic of meetings about bird flu.

They are trying to confine bird flu within the farm where it has broken out.

Ironically, after years of concern about H5N1 bird flu, the new flu causing concern is a pig virus, of a family known as H1N1.

have issued blunt warnings at the beginning of a tour of southeast Asian nations grappling with bird flu outbreaks.

Bird flu tends to be more active during the colder months of the year.

He said accurate surveillance of bird flu outbreaks is crucial to global efforts to combat the virus. As an example, he pointed to Nigeria.

He said accurate surveillance of bird flu outbreak is crucial to global efforts to combat the virus. As an example, he pointed to Nigeria.

Of the South-East Asian countries hit by outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu virus, Vietnam has perhaps had the hardest time of it.

Wild migratory birds from the Korean peninsula might have brought bird flu into Japan , a Japanese government report said .

A Canadian doctor claimed to have found a cure for bird flu.

Second, avoids animal which contacts the aquatic bird, the migratory bird and so on easy to carry the bird flu virus.

The recent bird flu outbreak had not deterred consumers from buying live chickens.

The number of birds reported to have died there since the bird flu outbreak began varies greatly.

The scientists say that basic research is urgently needed to understand the risk posed by the H5N1 bird flu virus and how it spreads.

Human clinical trials are planned for this year to test it against the bird flu, but any mass-produced product is still several years away.

A bird flu virus has been found in a pair of wild swans in the state of Michigan.

Earlier, Israel's Agriculture Ministry said the bird flu virus found in poultry in southern Israel is the lethal H5N1 strain.

SARS served as a lesson, but one that apparently has not been well learnt: China's reporting of bird flu outbreaks remains slow and patchy.

KFC announced that they would shoot TV advertisement to tell the customer that their chicken is safe even during the bird flu period.

That could mean bird flu will remain a dead end, infecting the occasional unlucky person but never turning into a full-blown pandemic.

Indonesia's government has signed a deal with the U. S. drug manufacturer Baxter International to develop a human bird flu vaccine.

And it's come to my attention that our company lacks any sort of bird flu contingency plan .

A day later, the Ministry of Agriculture denied that there had been any bird flu outbreaks in Guangdong this year.

The scientists are trying to hunt for a new way to control bird flu.

We have to have faith that there will be solutions in time to stop a Bird Flu epidemic in its tracks.

Indonesia has launched a massive bird flu drill to prepare for the possibility of a human-to-human outbreak of the deadly virus.

the possibility that, say, the virus that causes bird flu will evolve into a form that spreads easily from person to person.

The world's first genetically modified chickens that do not spread bird flu have been created by British scientists.

Junichiro Koizumi there Wednesday for talks expected to focus on bird flu as well as the two-year Japanese ban on American beef imports.

Its alert system was revised after bird flu in Asia began to spread in 2004, and Monday was the first time it was raised above Phase 3.

Their basic message was the same - contain a potential human bird flu pandemic as soon as possible, before it comes to the United States.

Already two anti-viral drugs Amantadine and Rimantadine have been found to be ineffective against bird flu.

Scientists continue to look for ways to deal with the deadly form of bird flu virus.

Health officials fear that bird flu could change into a form that spreads person-to-person worldwide.

The British government says the type of bird flu that killed a parrot in quarantine is the deadly strain that's plagued Asia and Europe.

Word came that the bird flu had been controlled all over China.

"After tests for the virus and an epidemiological investigation, no trace of the bird flu virus was found in these three areas, " it said.

One of the major goals for African nations is building their capacity to deal adequately with bird flu outbreaks.

More than one million chickens have been slaughtered since the outbreak of bird flu.

FOR the sake of basic human interests, the Indonesian government declares that genomic data on bird-flu viruses can be accessed by anyone.

H5N1 is a particular subtype of the avian influenza A virus, and is the current cause of bird flu in a number of countries.

Constanta in Romania after the eastern suburbs, there have been dozens of starling body, experts have worried that they may be bird flu.

China's Ministry of Health has confirmed a new human case of bird flu, the ministry announced on its website Saturday.

Indonesia also says it has been improving bird flu education and awareness programs. The U.

A swan with bird 'flu. For me, that's the drama of the last two days, and maybe I will have to buy a mask.

as many of you are aware, in recent weeks there has been a lot of media coverage surrounding this bird flu issue.

Since the outbreak of SARS and bird flu, the leaders of CAFTA have talked over about public health security cooperation.

China's Ministry of Health has confirmed a new case of bird flu, the ministry announced on its website Saturday.

Meanwhile, world animal health experts meeting in Rome have agreed to set up a bird flu coordinating center there.

South and Southeast Asian countries are grappling with new outbreaks of bird flu as winter weather sweeps across the region .

It may also be possible to catch bird flu by eating poultry that is not well cooked or through contact with a person who has it.

As long as bird flu is 'page one' news farmers would not re-stock as much as they normally do.

Now the prevention and control of the bird-flu is in the crucial stage, which is a test of our Chinese public management institution.

It is caused by an H1N1 virus which evolves directly from a bird flu into a human flu.

Now our best-friend biosensors might have a new task: ferreting out the scent of bird flu.

Vietnam has confirmed that bird flu killed one man in the north of the country, the first human fatality from the disease there this year.

Workers wear protective suits to gather and dispose of culled chickens after a case of bird flu was confirmed in Kinokawa, Japan.

Officials in New Delhi took pains to dismiss earlier press reports of a poultry farmer's death from suspected bird flu.

The pandemic threat is the h-five none influenza virus, also known as the bird flu.

When asked if China would put Bird Flu under complete control within one month's time, the spokeswoman gave a guarded reply.

Indonesia says it is interested in Hungary's prototype human bird flu vaccine and is considering getting a license for local production.

People don't have to worry too much about getting bird flu if they haven't touched living fowls or sparrows and their dejection before.

"The bird flu virus is threatening to become endemic in several parts of the country, " Domenech said.

Were all the capons disposed of when the bird flu spread?

It has no bearing on what might happen if an entirely new virus, such as H5N1 bird flu, mutated to cause a human pandemic.

So far, all the people who have caught bird flu have been those who touched sick chickens or their droppings .

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Five Asian nations and Canada today (25 April) launched a partnership to help identify ways of tackling outbreaks of bird flu.

Indonesia, has recorded, the highest number of human fatalities, from bird flu at least 55 deaths.

But local health care workers are not properly trained in diagnosing bird flu and often do not have the needed drugs to treat it.

The United Nations has warned of a possible resurgence of a deadly bird flu virus, H5N1, and the spread in Asia of a new mutant strain.

Dazzling and high-spirited, they nevertheless emerged at a moment not unlike today when the threat of bird flu looms large.

The latest death was announced the day after the infection of a two-year old with bird flu in Hunan was reported.

Health official reiterated that China is not covering up human cases of bird flu as suggested by some Western media mews reports .

Susilo appreciated Wen's suggestions on enhancing bilateral and multilateral cooperation and jointly responding to the bird flu.

This time, scientists were ready and waiting, conditioned by a nervous five-year watch over the lethal H5N1 bird-flu virus.

Conclusion Health education be carried to spread bird flu knowledge among target population and enhance their self-protection awareness.

Contact with sick fowl is the most common way of contracting bird flu, which is endemic in bird populations in most parts of Indonesia.

To stop bird flu spreading all over the world.

United Nations agencies are calling for money and technical help for countries in Asia to stop the spread of bird flu.

but here at the epicenter of bird flu cases so far , there is little other choice than to prepare.

Researchers have discovered a detail of the H5N1 bird flu virus's structure that could be exploited to make new, targeted influenza drugs.

There is also hope that two older generic drugs, amantadine and rimantadine, might be effective against bird flu.

He has not been able to export to European and other overseas markets as originally intended, because of concerns about bird flu.

"In a lot of countries that have experienced bird flu, the warning is a challenge, " a WHO spokesperson told SciDev.

Experts also say having good habits and a healthy body will help keep you safe from bird flu.

Because of the bird-flu, quantities of chickens are put down in this area.

The task force says it hopes the media will now present "a more balanced picture" of issues regarding the bird flu threat.

Bird flu vaccine offers limited protection but is better than nothing.

Now our best-friend biosensors might have a new task: ferretting out the scent of bird flu.

But when scientists tried to make vaccine the old-fashioned way, the bird flu quickly killed the eggs.

One set asked about different types of hypothetical colon cancer surgery and another about a treatment for bird flu.

The hope is to develop a vaccine that could give lifelong protection against a majority of flu viruses, including bird flu.

One of the most serious animal diseases is avian influenza or "bird flu" .

Sour relations could damage Asia's response in the face of everything from bird flu to currency crises, he added.

If the two deaths are confirmed to be caused by the bird flu virus, they will bring Indonesia's human toll from the disease to eleven.

Tests revealed they had died of a form of bird flu.

The move comes as Britain battles its worst outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, which yesterday led to several countries banning UK poultry imports.

That process is unfolding in different ways as this dangerous form of bird flu has been discovered in countries for the first time.

In December, Novavax studied low doses of its bird flu vaccine in a much smaller patient population.

Translation There are more warnings about the need to prepare for the possibility of a worldwide outbreak of bird flu.

Medical authorities have confirmed she was infected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which now has killed a total of 132 people worldwide.

South Korea has reported a third outbreak of bird flu at a quail farm south of the capital, Seoul .

Avian influenza (AI), commonly called bird flu, is an infectious viral disease of birds.

And H5N1 has become entrenched in a way that no other form of bird flu has, WHO says.

According to instructions, the latency period of bird flu is usually less than 7 days if a human is infected.

Researchers have advanced in the fight against bird flu by engineering antibodies that target the virus more effectively.

The present invention provides medicine for treating influenza and bird flu with effective component extracted from basket kern.

John: I have read some articles regarding the Bird Flu in Asia, and Vietnam is among the five countries where outbreaks occurred.

These unrecognised infected people would have milder symptoms than those the bird flu 'radar' of doctors and surveillance systems detects.

Without this, poor farmers will be tempted to hide bird-flu outbreaks and continue to sell poultry that should be culled.

Avian influenza ( "bird flu" ) is an infectious disease of birds caused by type A strains of the influenza virus.

The hope is to develop a vaccine that could givelifelonglifelong protection against a majority of flu viruses, including bird flu.

The virus is produced by a reassortment, in which human-adapted H1N1 swaps genes with an H2N2 bird flu.

Bird flu has broken out in many countries.

During the outbreak period of mad cow disease and bird flu, the consumers love the Portobello mushroom in place of the meat.

Health officials in Turkey say a third child of the same family has died of bird flu in the eastern Turkish city of Van.

Japanese officials have confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus at a poultry farm in southwestern Japan.

Kazakhstan's health minister says a dead swan found on the shores of the Caspian Sea in the west of the country died of bird flu.

Cambodia, China and Indonesia respond to outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu virus by vaccinating poultry to protect them from infection.

She fell ill after eating a sick chicken that died in an area stricken with bird flu.

The hope is to develop a vaccine that could give lifelong protection againstthea majority of flu viruses, including bird flu.

the avian flu appears, popular views are of the view that migratory wild bird flu spread.

The poultry industry throughout Asia has in recent years been subject to the shock of avian flu, or bird flu .

Its genetic makeup shows parts of human flu, avian (bird) flu and swine flu.

Eight days later, the WHO urged a response to the outbreak akin to recent global efforts to control SARS and bird flu.

The Asian Development Bank projects the economic loss from a bird flu pandemic in Asia could be nearly 300-billion dollars.

Injected into animals, the genetically engineered vaccine provided 100% protection against bird flu.

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"We are at another critical juncture of fighting against the bird flu situation in the region, " emphasized Mr He.

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And Australia's leading animal research facility is helping global efforts to control the deadly bird flu.

Officials were holding a second day of talks in Paris to discuss mass vaccinations and other efforts to combat bird flu.

Scientists meeting in Bangkok say bird flu continues to spread in several Asian and African countries.

Everyone is talking about bird flu. Yes, it is a very dangerous disease that could make people very sick.

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Live birds infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, or bird flu) can infect humans.

Unconfirmed report that seasonal flu vaccine in Ukraine is contaminated with life bird flu virus.

In recent days there have been two seemingly hopeful pieces of news about bird flu.

SARS broke out in Asian countries in 2003 and Bird Flu in Europe in 2005.

China and the US imposed bans on imports of each others' poultry in 2004, following an Asian bird flu outbreak.

China had previously said its first human case of bird flu occurred in November 2005.

Compensation schemes in Viet Nam are helping bird flu-affected poultry farmers restock.

Indonesia's human death toll from bird flu has reached 61, the highest of any country.

He killed all the chicken infected with the bird flu without exception.

No laboratory samples were taken from the brother, so a bird-flu diagnosis could not be confirmed.

Swedish authorities say wild ducks in southern Sweden have been found with the H5 strain of bird flu.

But, he added, because bird flu isn't readily transmissible to people, there is 'no need to get nervous.

Also weighing on sentiment were fears over bird flu and concerns of further share placements.

Indonesia, for example, is building research facilities to produce a single vaccine for both the swine and bird flu viruses.

Bird flu is a health threatening communicable disease following SARS.

FOR most of the past three years, the highly pathogenic bird flu known as H5N1 has been found mainly in Asia.

With the bird flu emerging in some Asian countries, our government has placed the imported food under close surveillance.

To date, 133 cases of highly pathogenic bird flu in humans have been identified, Brahmbhatt said.

South Asian countries recorded outbreaks of bird flu in chicken the past winter, with Nepal recording its first case in February.

Nothing serious, the doctor said I may have gotten bird flu.

It highlights the global development of bird flu preparedness and control, and reports bird flu activity in human and birds.

This strain of bird flu has caused the deaths of hundreds of millions of poultry in nine Asian nations.

The reality is that in 2005, worries of a bird flu epidemic prompted the Bush administration to increase flu vaccine production capacity.

China has millions of backyard birds and a strained rural medical system that is seen as key in the fight against bird flu.

After the outbreak of the bird flu and swine flu, I've become a germophobe.

A Hungarian government spokesman says the deadly strain of bird flu virus has been found in southern Hungary.

The Center for Health Protection is also testing all severe pneumonia cases for the bird flu.

Lessons were learnt from dealing with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the H5N1 bird flu virus, argues the editorial.

Japanese government 30 am in the Congress set up a "bird flu countermeasures headquarters. "

China will close its borders if there is a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the country.

And that's after the country suffered through the December 2004 tsunami, bird flu and SARS.

There are more warnings about the need to prepare for the possibility of the worldwide outbreak of bird flu.

The outbreak of bird flu has inflicted devastating losses on the poultry sector.

Human beings can catch bird flu by coming into direct contact with infected poultry.

Latest World Health Organization figures put the known number of humans infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus at 217, with 123 deaths.

Since then, the bird flu virus has spread to birds in countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.

The World Health Organization says more than 500 cases of bird flu have been diagnosed worldwide since 2003. Of those, 302 cases were fatal.

The rapid spread of bird flu in the region is quite worrying.

Egypt's Health Ministry says a 26-year-old woman has died from bird flu, the third death from the disease in less than one week.

The call comes after news that the bird flu virus H5N1 has spread from South-East Asia to Kazakhstan and Russia.

The spokesman says health experts can find no bird flu in animals or poultry in the village where the deaths occurred.

Thailand has reported its first outbreak of bird flu in 10 months in a region north of Bangkok.

the international red cross says it plans to scale - up its bird flu operations in 26 countries , mainly in asia and africa.

Mostly, these have been aimed at the threat of bird flu.

Bird-flu responses of this magnitude were last carried out in 1997 and 2001.

Researchers in the country say they have developed a bird flu vaccine for human use, and the vaccine is "safe" and "effective" .

For the inevitable future scary outbreak, a new bird flu vaccine has been developed.

Also Monday, Malaysian authorities reported new cases of H5N1 bird flu among dead chickens in Penang state.

The bird flu risk to European countries due to wild birds is relatively low at present, according to FAO.

When local bigwigs can award contracts to firms which they themselves control, graft spreads like bird flu.

He reported that all three countries are working to control bird flu outbreaks.

The bulk of the chickens had to be killed because of the bird flu virus.

Since last month four townships in Rangoon have reported bird flu cases.

Indonesia's health ministry says another Indonesian man has died of bird flu, raising the country's death toll from the virus to 93.

Nabarro, is on his fourth visit to the region to review bird flu preparedness.

Health officials say that some 25 people in Turkey -- mostly children -- are being treated for possible bird flu.

Chickens could be threatened if bird flu reaches the UK EU and.

As such, the Chinese researchers have concluded pigs are not intermediate hosts for the deadly new strain of bird flu.

A 58-year-old man from the city of Fuzhou tested positive for the bird flu earlier today.

This activity is intended to heighten public awareness of bird flu.

So far 4 human bird flu cases have been reported in 4 provinces, with 3 fatalities.

During an outbreak of bird flu, people who have contact with infected birds can become sick.

Mice were trained to identify feces from bird-flu-infected ducks by smell.

Natural disasters, from bird flu to floods, could cause chaos.

While it and a similar bird flu vaccine have undergone safety testing, no seasonal flu vaccine has yet been made this way.

It will take "many, many months" , he thinks, for Indonesia to get on top of bird flu.

The call came as Vietnam reported two new possible cases of bird flu in humans.

Could the bird flu be the plague of our century?

Their letter says the man's tissue tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.

The bird-flu virus manages to become easily tra mit table between human .

From rabies to bird flu to HIV, diseases passing from animals tohumans is a well-known phenomenon.

The case, that the mad bull disease and bird flu infected human, caused people's attention to the reliability of meat.

China has completed its preparations to combat bird flu.

Jaguars and other big cats can protect humans from the rise of future pandemics akin to HIV and bird flu.

Two more wild birds have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Germany.

My question is that what international cooperation has China conducted with regard to preventing and controlling bird flu?

The United Nations health agency sought to restrain fears of bird flu, which is striking large numbers of people.

elsewhere in asia , malaysia has imposed a ban on imports of pet birds to prevent a bird flu outbreak.

H5N1 bird flu has travelled across Eurasia, mainly in birds, but it hasn't spread readily in people, so it isn't a pandemic.

As of Tuesday, the World Health Organization had counted 329 cases of the bird flu virus since 2003. Sixty percent of the patients died.

Projections of deaths and economic losses (as much as $3 trillion) based on the lethal bird-flu virus will look like gross exaggerations.

Indonesia's Ministry of Health has confirmed another human fatality from the bird flu virus H5N1, according to a December 6 WHO update.

Almost all the humans who have contracted bird flu were found to have been in close contact with chickens.

Even if bird flu has disappeared from our TV screens, it doesn't mean that the risk is over.

Bird flu should not make us feel powerless.

It will protect a whole flock from infection from bird flu.

China itself is a large chicken-farming country, and bird flu is confirmed or suspected in 14 of the nation's 31 regions.

Two men have died in Shanghai after contracting bird flu.

Earlier this week Vienamese authorities announced am outbreak of bird flu in the country's north.

This is probably why diseases like bird flu, mad cow disease and foot and mouth have appeared - what goes around comes around.

Avian influenza (bird flu) was first identified over 100 years ago during an outbreak in what country?

The danger, she said, is that swine flu could mix with other flu strains, such as H5N1 bird flu, and become far more lethal.

With the announcement, the government raised the bird flu alert to "serious, " meaning.

Yet the bird flu has spread to several provinces and jumped from poultry to pigs and even people, causing 83 human cases.

China Rules Out Bird Flu in 12-Year-Old Girl's Death; Indonesia Tests Dead Chickens for Virus.

The restaurant has stopped using poultry from Hunan because of the recent outbreak of bird flu there.

Three Chinese died this year of H5N1 bird flu and they were infected probably through contact with sick poultry.

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The threat is real that the bird flu virus will creat a human epidemic that could kill millions of people.

Bird Flu May Spread Along Migratory Routes.

Two more bird flu cases confirmed in Indonesia!

Many Asian countries are fighting the bird flu.

What do you get if you cross bird flu with the 2009 pandemic human virus, widely known as swine flu?

Chinese scientists began their research on bird flu vaccine in 2005.

Turkey confirmed a new human bird flu case Tuesday.

Why is bird flu more deadly than seasonal flu in humans?