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Fifth case of bird flu in China confirmed

...alth officials remain fearful that the virus could mutate into a form that could spread from person to person, potentially sparking a global pandemic. Meanwhile, the State Forestry Bureau yesterday set up a State-level surveillance station for wild-life epidemics in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province...

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

...Romania. The issue of the bird flu’s ability to mutate has risen great concern because once it spreads to humans there will be a number of causalities and result in increased death tolls but so far the situation has been kept under control with no human causalities reported....

Bird Flu Spreading in China's Poultry

... with sick birds, but experts warn the virus could mutate into a form easily passed between people and spark a worldwide pandemic. Chinese officials have blamed migratory birds for many of the nation's outbreaks and say that vaccinating domestic poultry is their best bet in severing the transmission link b...

Doctors attacked for complacency against pandemic threat

... birds in Asia directly and through culling, could mutate to allow human-to-human transmission. So far it has killed 62 people but has infected only those who work closely with oultry....

US Airlines Worried About Bird Flu In Passengers

...be the deadliest of the bird flu viruses and could mutate to a form, which can spread easily from person to person. In the event of this happening, experts have predicted millions of casualties since there is no known cure for the influenza. The virus has already killed about 64 people in Indonesia, Vietnam...

Bird Flu Likely To Reduce World Energy Demand

...nergy Information Administration. “Should the flu mutate into a true global pandemic, the economic implications would be profound, potentially reducing energy demand by well over 1-million barrels per day,” the US investment bank said. Goldman Sachs noted that the spread of severe acute respiratory syndro...

A bird's eye view of the Bird Flu scare

...ainst the disease. The fear is that the virus will mutate into a form that is easily transmissible to humans and if that happens experts have predicted a disaster in terms of human lives lost. India and the bird flu : As of this moment there have not been any cases reported in India. But the scenario c...

ADB Report Warns of Bird-Flu Catastrophe

...at has swept through Asia and entered Europe could mutate into a form transmissible between people and produ...flocks in Asia and pockets of eastern Europe could mutate into a form easily spread from person to person and have called for increased prevention worldwide. ...

Global Outbreak Of Bird Flu Warning By Chinese Scientist

...ncern that H5N1, a deadly strain of the virus, may mutate into a form easily transmissible between humans. Of the 15 avian influenza viruses, the H5N1 mutates rapidly and can acquire genes from viruses infecting other animal species, according to the WHO website. Birds that survive infection excrete vir...

GlaxoSmithKline to Supply United States with 8 Million flu vaccine, Fluarix

...at a particularly virulent form of avian flu could mutate and spread to the United States. Fluarix, produced by GSK and other jabs could limit the effects of a pandemic by herd vaccination; herd immunization is achieved by providing vaccination to large population of people and increasing their protection a...

Bird Flu Risk In Europe, Middle East And Africa

...try animals they are wide chances of the virus may mutate and may cause infections to humans. Mutation of ...asses from bird to bird; it has the opportunity to mutate in to a very infectious and deadly form to humans and can easily spread between people. This mutatio...

SARS (Bird Flu) spreading in the Asian continent

...t the Health and animal experts fear that it could mutate into a form, which can easily pass among people and hence trigger a global epidemic. Dr. Shigeru Omi of WHO at the opening of the OIE conference said, "The virus has behaved in ways that suggests it remains as unstable, unpredictable and versatile...

Night Light Found To Increase The Risk Of Leukemia

...t DNA from oxidative damage. Once damaged, DNA may mutate and carcinogenesis may occur." Thus researcher conclude saying that if melatonin levels are altered by magnetic fields, a potential relationship between these fields and cancer, including leukemia, would be possible....

MRI with nanoparticles highly sensitive in detecting prostate cancer metastases

... than focusing on the malignant cells which always mutate ." The nanoparticles, which are being developed by Massachusetts-based Advanced Magnetics Inc. under the name Combidex, are in the final stages of approval by the US Food and Drug Administration....

Success of HIV may depend in its mutations

... an effective defense. Although HIV's ability to mutate rapidly has been well documented, the effects of those mutations on an infected individual have not been studied thoroughly. So Shankar and colleagues examined the immune system's killer cell responses to mutated forms of HIV taken from infected peop...

Disease chromosomes identified

...ccurs in the body. HGP indicates that when genes mutate or are damaged, they cause heart diseases. cancer, Alzheimer's and numerous other ailments which have strong genetic components. The Cambridge scientists found that chromosome1 genes are associated with Alzheimer's and prostate ailments while chromo...

Disease chromosomes identified

...ccurs in the body. HGP indicates that when genes mutate or are damaged, they cause heart diseases. cancer, Alzheimer's and numerous other ailments which have strong genetic components. The Cambridge scientists found that chromosome1 genes are associated with Alzheimer's and prostate ailments while chromo...

Antibodies to fight HIV infection.

...cult to fight HIV with antibodies as the virus can mutate rapidly to take a new form that may not be so easily distinguished. The researchers had identified the protein antibody 2G12 as the one, which can fight the virus for some time. However scientists on the project do agree that even if the antibody ca...

Chances are high for Avian Influenza virus altering its form

...opinion that the virus may have already started to mutate to a new strain that may affect the human population and thus the authorities are needed to intervene early to stop any pandemonium from arising.Of the 69 cases of bird flu reported so far, 46 of them had been fatal. These cases had occurred in three...

WHO Issues Caution Against Bird Flu Epidemic

... the strain of virus that causes bird flu may soon mutate itself to a form that may spread the disease human to human, and cause an influenza outbreak that human immunity will be unable to handle. The disease was first seen in the poultry of Republic of Korea in mid December 2003 and had soon spread to Asi...

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