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US Airlines Worried About Bird Flu In Passengers

...nown cure for the influenza. The virus has already killed about 64 people in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia over the last 24 months. A vaccine called Tamiflu has proved to be effective against the virus and nations are currently stockpiling the same....

Land of Kebabs, also reaps enormous profit in fast food

... its worst natural disaster - the Oct 8 earthquake killed 86,000 people - a diabetes epidemic on the scale that has been predicted could be a problem in many ways even harder to resolve....

Doctors attacked for complacency against pandemic threat

...ocks in the Far East over the past eight years and killed 62 people, raising fears that the world may be on ...fear the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which has killed millions of birds in Asia directly and through culling, could mutate to allow human-to-human transmi...

US Reviews Risks Of Tamiflu After 12 Children Die

...and for Tamiflu has soared as avian flu, which has killed at least 64 people in the Far East, has spread to birds and poultry Europe. At least 50 countries including the US, UK and Japan have placed orders worth $1.4bn (￡810m) to prepare for a flu pandemic experts say is inevitable. India has bought 100,000...

US Regulator Sees No Link Between Tamiflu And Japan Deaths

...m the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The strain has killed more than 60 people in Southeast Asia since 2003 and since last month has been found in Europe, Canada and the Middle East. Japan has become the single-biggest purchaser of Tamiflu. A health ministry report Monday said that in the worst-case scenari...

Australia earmarks $74 Million to Fight Bird Flu

...statement quoting Howard as saying. Bird flu has killed 67 of the 130 people it has infected in Asia since 2003. --IANS...

High Hopes Pinned At Hungarian Bird Flu Vaccine

...inst the H5N1 type of avian influenza,// which has killed more than 60 people in Asia. Even while the vaccine, which produced an immune reaction to the H5N1 strain of the virus when tested on people is at a very early stage of development, several countries have shown interest in buying the experimental bi...

Qualms Of Bird Flu Risk During Haj Pilgrimage

...Experts fear that the deadly H5N1 virus, which has killed 67 people in five countries in Asia over the past two years, is on the verge of undergoing mutation, thus making it easier to spread from birds to humans. In the event of this happening the impact worldwide would be tremendous, experts say. The ris...

U.S. To Tighten Sick Passenger, Quarantine Rules

... virus cannot yet easily infect people, but it has killed at least 67 people in five Asian nations since late 2003. Bird flu is yet to surface in the United States. The CDC, however, does not want to wait until emerging infections take root before plugging the gaps in the regulations governing control of ...

Vegetables And Fruits Cause More US Food Illnesses

...n and death, but most problematic organisms can be killed when food is cooked long enough at high enough temperatures. Not all people exposed to an outbreak get sick, but those who do can experience vomiting, diarrhea and fever, among other problems for about a week. Some experience no symptoms but can inf...

Bird Flu Alarm In Indonesia

...en found in 23 of Indonesia's 30 provinces and has killed seven people. Indonesian health authorities and the WHO have warned more cases could be expected, saying that the virus has spread to at least 22 of the vast archipelago's 33 provinces, killing more than 9.5 million poultry since late 2003. Almost...

Bird flu virus isolated from duck farm in Canada

... strain in canadian duck farm the authoroties have killed more than 60,000 birds as a precautionary methods to stop any possible spread of virus to humans and birds and are organizing nation wide Flu watch programs and have asked the hospital authoroties to report any case of respiratory infections and have...

Running Water Restored In Chinese City

...a city about 120 miles southeast. Five people were killed and 10,000 evacuated. But the Chinese authorities ...st in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killed one worker and evacuated 6,000 people. About 800 residents and Communist Party members were helpin...

Ban on exports of poultry products from British Columbia lifted

... strain in canadian duck farm the authoroties have killed more than 60,000 birds as a precautionary methods to stop any possible spread of virus to humans and birds....

Fear Of Dengue Epidemic Looms Large: Fever Kills Five in Pakistan

...the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) // has killed at least 5 people, including a woman doctor, and infected around 45 people in the country's biggest city of Karachi. Dengue, commonly known as Congo fever, is spread through the bite of an infected Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which usually bites during...

Fruit Bats Act As Carriers of Ebola Virus

...e reservoirs of the virus. Till date the virus has killed 90% of the infected people. ...

Prostate Cancer Stem Cells Discovered By York Researchers

...l to grow back. In essence, if the stem cells were killed off, there is no chance of the cancer returning. "For the first time we have been able to extract these stem cells from prostate cancers, and we are the only people in the world who have been able to propagate them in the laboratory," Maitland said. ...

Bird flu makes its presence felt in the Crimean peninsula

...termine if the virus is the deadly strain that has killed almost 70 people in Asia. A state of emergency has been called for by the Ukrainian president in some parts of the Crimean peninsula. This follows more than one-thousand wild and domesticated birds having been found dead. In order to limit the spre...

Novel Strain Detected In The Recent Outbreak Of Bird Flu At Ukraine

...ne (Crimea peninsula) and hence domestic birds are killed and put in pits that were dug for the purpose//. Health workers and emergency workers are recruited to get their hands on all the birds including (chickens, ducks and geese) and destroy them thereby the outbreak can be contained. Compensation was giv...

Measles Break Out In Relief Camps

...on of regions ravaged by October's earthquake that killed more than 75,000 people and rendered 3.5 million people homeless. --Indo-Asian News Service...

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