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Turkey Confirms Return Of Bird Flu Among Chickens

Turkey confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the southeast of the country on Thursday; a yea...tatement on Thursday 170 chickens had died of bird flu in Bogazkoy village in the province of Batman. The ministry said it believed wild birds had spread t...

Viagra to Be an OTC Drug Soon

...dotes to biological weapons and antiviral drugs in flu pandemic. Viagra, the blue diamond –shaped anti-impotence pill launched in 1998, will now be sold at 50 pounds for four tablets, to those in the age group 30 to 65. They must be able to satisfy the pharmacist with their reports of medical history...

One More Bird Flu Victim in Indonesia

...onesian woman is reported to have died due to bird flu in Indonesia. This was disclosed by Nyoman Kandun,...y. This is the sixty fourth casualty due to bird flu in this nation which is the highest for any country in the world. According to the health ministr...

Flu Strikes Late - Child Succumbs

...uccumbed to the flu, in British Columbia//. The flu season seems to have arrived late as it usually pe...ix to eight thousand. Most people who die of the flu are the elderly, but children occasionally do succumb. Those who are vulnerable include pregnant wo...

Flood Toll Rises, and Indonesia Braces for Disease

.... Officials also issued warnings about the bird flu virus, which has flared again in Indonesia this winter, causing the government to consider imposing a state of emergency. Sixty-three people have died of the virus in Indonesia, more than in any other country. Flooding every year during the rainy s...

Indonesia Has Stopped Sharing Vital Bird Flu Data

Indonesia, the country worst hit by the flu pandemic, has stopped sharing human genetic samples of the most deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu with foreign laboratories last// month. This was due to its raising fears of the international eff...

Bird Flu Claims Next Egyptian Victim

...e for the H5N1 virus. Egypt found the first bird flu case in dead poultry on Feb. 17, 2006 and then the... than 150 people worldwide. The discovery of avian flu in the Middle East has led to widespread culling of birds. The World Health Organization has repor...

U.S. Issues Guidelines in Case of Flu Pandemic

...ls for up to three months in the event of a severe flu outbreak, ball games and movies should be canceled...l government advised today in issuing new pandemic flu guidelines to states and cities. Health officials acknowledged that such measures would hugely dis...

Expect More Outbreaks in Europe, Bird Flu Expert Warns

Top bird flu expert Dr.David Nabarro, Senior U.N. Coordinator f... Avian and Human Influenza has warned of more bird flu outbreaks in Europe. // Speaking from Indonesia where he is attending a bird flu conference, Nabarr...

Less-lethal Strains of Bird Flu Virus may Become the Biggest Killer

...oser study of less-lethal strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus because they might be more //likely candidat...cent - survived," Tang told Reuters. The Spanish flu of 1918-19 killed about 50 million people worldwide, but the real number will never be known. "Thi...

Hundreds of Turkeys Die Due to Bird Flu

Government vets are probing an outbreak of bird flu in a poultry farm in Suffolk, following the death ...rd-flu outbreak. This is the second attack of bird flu in a year where an East Anglican poultry farm has been affected. The April 2006 onslaught led to ...

Muscle-Building Exercise Improves Response to Flu Shot

...ion of muscle-building exercise before receiving a flu shot can enhance a person’s immune response.// T...s later, all participants received an injection of flu vaccine, which was donated by GlaxoSmithKline, UK. Participants had their blood tested repeatedly ...

Hungarian Geese Slaughtered as Bird Flu Returns to EU

...nfirmed Monday the first outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in the EU since mid-2006, after tests on Hun...n the farm. "Animals suspected of carrying bird flu were found Friday on a goose farm in Derekegyhaza," about 170 kilometers (105 miles) southeast of Bu...

Not Just ‘Bird’ Flu Anymore- Avian Influenza Strikes Cas

In a discovery that has put bird flu experts in a state of deep concern, an Indonesian scientist has identified an outbreak of bird flu in cats.// The scientist Chairul Anwar Nidom from Airlangga University in Surabaya discovered H5N1...

Warming Up to a Winter Cold

...ons. According to latest research, most cold and flu viruses are transmitted after contact with an infected surface and not so much because of being sneezed over. In the context, they advice, that it is imperative to wash hands thoroughly and keep them in warm water for 15 seconds. The wet hands need ...

To Russia With Love-Bird Flu Strikes

Bird flu has come to Russia after quarantine measures were lifted August 2006. The incidence of bird flu in 2006 resulted in an epidemic that called for the culling// of 1.5 million birds. The present ou...

Novavax Says Bird Flu Vaccines Effective

...protecting// against different strains of the bird flu virus, and its shares surged in after-hours tradin...es, one targeting the Indonesia strain of pandemic flu and another targeting the Viet Nam strain. Mice and ferrets inoculated with each vaccine were protec...

Oral Flu Vaccine On The Horizon In Russia

...ns to develop what could become the first tablet// flu vaccine formulation. The scientists, from Russia...will follow in the footsteps of a rival intranasal flu vaccine, MedImmune's FluMist, which is already on sale in the USA. The adjuvant used in the vacci...

Cat Owners at Risk of Bird Flu

...to a human pandemic. And it shows that should bird flu ever break out in Britain, cat owners should be pa...sts point to the alarming precedent of the Spanish flu pandemic, which killed tens of millions at the end of the First World War. It spread from birds to h...

Call For Bird Flu Antiviral Drugs To Be Shared

...of antiviral drugs would slow down the spread of a flu virus by many months, to the benefit of both drug donors and recipients. Source-Bio-Bio Technology SR...

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