News tagged with new flu strain
Predicting hotspots for future flu outbreaks
(Medical Xpress)—This year's unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if bird flu became highly contagious among humans, which is why UCLA researchers and their colleagues ...
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Mar 14, 2013 |
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Scientists to resume work with lab-bred bird flu
International scientists who last year halted controversial research with the deadly bird flu say they are resuming their work as countries adopt new rules to ensure safety.
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Jan 23, 2013 |
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Bird flu, pig flu, now bat flu? Human risk unclear
(AP) -- For the first time, scientists have found evidence of flu in bats, reporting a never-before-seen virus whose risk to humans is unclear.
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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Study points to new means of overcoming antiviral resistance in influenza
UC Irvine researchers have found a new approach to the creation of customized therapies for virulent flu strains that resist current antiviral drugs.
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Jul 12, 2011 |
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Scientists: China bird virus likely silent threat
Scientists taking a first look at the genetics of a bird flu strain that has killed three people in China said Wednesday that the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it ...
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Apr 03, 2013 |
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Dreams of ideal flu vaccine are closer to reality
Despite modern advances, the half-century-old method of producing flu vaccine still takes six months and requires hundreds of millions of fertilized chicken eggs.
Medications
Feb 15, 2013 |
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No sign Vietnam mutant bird flu greater threat: UN
A mutant strain of the deadly bird flu H5N1 virus detected in Vietnam does not appear to pose an increased risk to human health, the United Nations said on Monday.
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Sep 05, 2011 |
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CDC: 2 children sickened by novel swine flu strain
(AP) -- Health officials say a novel strain of swine flu has sickened two children in Pennsylvania and Indiana.
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Sep 02, 2011 |
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Vietnam hit by new 'highly-toxic' bird flu: reports
A new highly-toxic strain of the potentially deadly bird flu virus has appeared in Vietnam and is spreading fast, according to state media reports.
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Sep 07, 2012 |
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