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China Agrees to Share Bird Flu Samples

China has agreed to share human bird flu samples, the World Health Organisation said on... it will be in the near future," she said. While bird flu is mainly a disease in animals, experts fear it could mutate into a form that can be passed easi...

FDA Grants Approval to First Bird Flu Vaccine

... to a French drug firm for manufacturing the first bird flu vaccine//. However it says it is only an inter...ct humans against the H5N1 influenza virus, or the bird flu. It is a product of the Paris-based Sanofi-Aventis, the world's third largest drug-maker. At ...

Bird Flu Claims Its 14th Human Victim in Egypt

...th in Egypt, a 15-year-old girl has succumbed to// bird flu infection on 10th of April. The girl hailing from Cairo Governate was sick with symptoms of bird flu. She was admitted to a hospital but did not survive the infection. In Egypt, nearly 34 humans...

South African Farmers Turn to Organic Farming

... costs. Nourished by compost made of cow manure, bird droppings, mulched apple and other natural ingredients, the soil now boasts a richer moister texture, and, Prevost maintains, his fruit has "better legs" to withstand extreme weather. Fruit farmers complain of mildew on grapes from un-seasonal rain...

Climate Change Threatens Sundarbans and World Heritage Sites

... Famous for its beauty, it is home to at least 260 bird species, Indian otters, spotted deer, wild boar, fiddler crabs, mud crabs, three marine lizard species and five marine turtle species. They also host threatened species such as the estuarine crocodile, Indian python and the iconic Bengal tiger. For...

India Earmarks Rs.1.34 Bn to Fight Bird Flu

...ed Rs.1.34 billion to prepare, control and contain bird flu for three years starting March 2007.// The C...g an outbreak containment plan and setting up of a bird flu cell in the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, according to an official rel...

Arsenic in Chicken Feed may Cause Health Complications

...is piece of news may vie for space with stories on bird flu. After all, it is about the popular// delicacy, chicken. Earlier it was thought that pets may be the only ones who need to be wary of some food additives. Now, according to an insight, an arsenic-based additive that forms an ingredient in chicken...

Beijing Adequately Prepares for Potential Health Eventualities During Olympics

...st 2008, to combat highly infectious diseases like bird flu and SARS. China has been putting its best foot forward to curb the spread of bird flu. As a preventive measure, China took the intelligent step of vaccinating poultry in a large scal...

Penguin: an Alternative Bio-indicator to Monitor Climate Change

...al behavior, such as altering patterns of fish and bird migration//. However, scientists at the University of Birmingham are trying out an alternative bio-indicator – the king penguin – to investigate whether they can be used to monitor the effects of climate change. “If penguins are travelling further...

100,000 Bird Flu Vaccine Doses to Be Destroyed

...0,000 doses of the country's first vaccine against bird flu will be destroyed because the laboratory that ...SADL) here developed India's first vaccine against bird flu. It had preserved about 100,000 doses of the vaccine, each costing just 27 paise. But no drug ...

Pigeon Feathers to Judge Pollution Levels

...Bakre. "It is the first time in the country that bird feathers have been used to assess the pollution level," said Bakre. The pigeon feathers are first collected and then tested in the laboratory for length and the heavy metals in it. The feathers are chemically tested in nitric and perchloric acid. ...

WHO to Stock Bird Flu Vaccine

Responding to calls for a fair distribution of bird flu vaccines, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...rk. She emphasized that the global fight against bird flu required the full cooperation of developing countries, an obligation that will be enshrined in a...

Indonesia's Bird Flu Death Toll Rises to 72

A 23-year-old woman has died of bird flu in Indonesia, bringing the country's total num...rom the virus in more than a year. The number of bird flu cases has increased rapidly in Indonesia. This year alone, the H5N1 avian influenza virus has cl...

Northeast States Sound Bird Flu Alert

...ar after the two countries reported an outbreak of bird flu, officials said Monday. Tripura, Assam, Mi...een sounded and steps taken to prevent outbreak of bird flu here,' said Narayan Das, director of the animal resource department, Tripura. Bangladesh has cu...

Bird Flu Vaccine - Indonesia Attracts WHO Attention

...e key challenge in the development of vaccines for bird flu, clearly revolves around finding a vaccine to combat the deadly strain //of bird flu, the H5N1 virus, which could mutate to pandemic proportions. In the past 50 years, nations in ...

Two More Suspected Avian Flu Deaths in Indonesia

... initial test results, Indonesia's death toll from bird flu will rise to 71 since 2003 when bird flu first hit Asian countries. Experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily...

Bird Flu Scare in Tripura

...heastern state of India which borders it, is under bird flu// alert. Bird flu in Bangladesh has proved a fear factor as not only is it in close proximity to Tripura, the state also imports chicks and eggs from Bangladesh. In the wake of the scare, the Family Welfare Preventive Medicine and the Animal...

India Sounds Bird Flu Alert in Border States

...w of the preparedness for handling any outbreak of bird flu in India was undertaken by the cabinet secretary Wednesday. The Animal Husbandry Department has advised these states to intensify surveillance measures. "The government of India has already stockpiled adequate quantities of medicines and equi...

Brazilian Boost for Bird Flu Vaccines

...fying agent which could make vaccines for the H5N1 bird flu virus cheaper, more effective, and easier to p... help developing countries at the forefront of any bird flu pandemic struggling to access and afford the vaccines and drugs produced and stockpiled by devel...

Trial Run of Copper to Combat MRSA

...cluding using copper as a possible defense against bird flu. Experiments by the Southampton team have already shown that the metal can kill the human flu virus. Although probably best known for its use as an electrical conductor or in pipes, the healing power of copper has been known for thousands of ...

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