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Scinetists Alert to Onset of Pandemic through Bird flu Mutations to Humans

...es to researchers indicating pandemic strains// of bird flu. The research has been reported in the Nov. ...nd secure viral isolates from humans infected with bird flu, thereby making it easier to map a mutation trajectory that will help predict when the avian vir...

Caution:Tamiflu ‘tames’ flu but psychiatric side effects now reportd

...ts have procured Tamiflu in massive bulk to combat bird flu.Roche the pharmaceutical giant based in Switzerland which had introduced this drug to the international market has announcedthat they fully support the revision in labeling and that they are commited to work with the drug relatory bodies around t...

Egypt reports fresh bird flu infection

A new infection of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus among domestic fowls has been discovered...d, he said. On Oct 30, an Egyptian woman died of bird flu virus and became the country's seventh fatal human case of the disease. Egypt reported the fir...

Adequate Ground Work before a Pandemic Necessary

...or its reliability in enabling the exact status of bird flu. In her estimate, bird-flu is just like a ticking time-bomb, waiting to explode. The only question is ‘when’ and not ‘if’, she says. She believes in anticipation and planning adequately, which will be the only way to tide over a crisis. AV...

India Free From Bird Flu

...ported for nearly four months, India declared that bird flu has been totally eradicated in the country. ...rs have been informed that our country is free of bird flu. She explained, 'During winter, birds from Europe migrate to India to avoid the severe cold ther...

China Denies Existence Of New Bird Flu Strain

...a has denied the existence of a new strain of H5N1 bird flu in its Fujian province as reported by a scienc...onal Academy of Sciences that a new strain of H5N1 bird flu in its Fujian province had already spread to Malaysia, the Laos and Thailand, and may cause a ma...

India sounds bird flu alert as migration season begins

India Wednesday sounded a bird flu alert in all states as the season of migratory birds begins with the onset of winter.// "We have given clear instruction to all our states to be on vigil. The alert will be in place till February next year," said Upma Chawdhry, joint secretary,...

US Citizens Told To Stockpile For Bird Flu Outbreak

..., medicine and water in their homes// in case of a bird flu pandemic, a news report said Tuesday. An adv...hers were infected in the first modern outbreak of bird flu that attacked humans in Hong Kong in 1997. Since then, however, the city of 6.8 million has bu...

Ex-Hong Kong Health Chief Favourite For WHO Top Job

... Chan joined the WHO where she has specialised in bird flu pandemic preparations after a controversial stint as Hong Kong health director during which her department was criticised for its slow initial response to the SARS outbreak. China has enthusiastically thrown its weight behind Chan's candidacy. ...

New Bird flu Strain Claims Refuted

Leading Chinese bird flu experts have refuted a report on Sunday that claimed that a new strain of bird flu had emerged in southern China, //published in a foreign publication as well as widely cited by f...

Human Strain Of Bird Flu Virus, Just A Matter Of Time?

Scientists are increasingly certain that the bird flu virus H5N1 will at some point in the future mu..., a retroviral drug which is effective against the bird flu virus. George Abercrombie , head of operations for North America, Roche, spoke on Friday abo...

New Bird Flu Virus Resistant To Vaccine: Study

...most common carriers, and they were susceptible to bird flu year-round. Source-IANS...

Anti-Bird flu surveillance stepped-up in Britain

As a new strain of bird flu virus has been detected in Asia, the British g...olling //in several more sites for any evidence of bird flu. The death of any water birds in U.K.’s 304 nature reserves, reservoirs and parks will be brou...

Seventh Human Succumbs to Bird Flu in Egypt

Egypt has recorded the seventh human death due to bird flu, according to the recent communiqué by the Hea...ahman Shaheen said "It is the seventh death due to bird flu. The lady contracted the disease while slaughtering domestic poultry, and was taken to hospital ...

Bird flu outbreak prevented by Tamiflu

...dian Government used the drug Tamiflu to avert the bird flu outbreak when the deadly virus H5N1 struck the...ould have resulted in people being infected by the bird flu virus easily, ultimately resulting in their mortality." According to the scientists, the strai...

Drexel Research in Cytokines Could Treat Sepsis

...le to apply our technology to fight Hepatitis C or bird flu or HIV,” says Dr. Gleb Yushin, research assistant professor at the Drexel Nanotechnology Institute and lead author on the journal article that reports this work. Source-Newswise<BRSRM...

Sparrows in China Carry Bird Flu Virus

... scientists recently reported that they found H5N1 bird flu virus in sparrows two years ago, the first tim...s has been detected// in the common, non-migratory bird in China. Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China's Hubei province tested excrement samples fr...

American ‘wild’ birds identified as culpable for spreading bird fu

...s and it has the capability to transmit the deadly bird flu. In an effort to identify and isolate the bi...ied that the suspicions surrounding the Mallard, a bird common in North America, being a common reservoir for influenza virus to be a potential danger was l...

Switzerland to stock bird flu vaccine

... for a stock of GlaxoSmithKline Plc's experimental bird flu vaccine for human, enough to protect its entir...ainst influenza pandemic which can be activated by bird flu. After the review and approval of the regulatory file for the pre-pandemic vaccine by the Swis...

Effective Strategy Against Bird flu-Spainish Flu Vaccine Raises Hopes

...t expected to attack again.But the recent spate of bird flu in several nations has caused scientists to in...eveloping a vaccine against a particular strain of bird flu can be done in a matter of months.Vaccination is therefore to be a likely approach to dealing wi...

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