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marry submitted, created time 5 months 1 week (www.time.com)
The first experimental bird flu vaccine made from lab-grown cells instead of chicken eggs shows promise in blocking the highly lethal virus... 
Whatever Happened to... Avian Flu?
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (discovermagazine.com)
For much of 2005 and 2006, headlines about bird flu were sensational (“Virus 911”), fearmongering (“Bird Flu: We’re All Going to Die”), and plentiful, running in major papers daily. The 
Pandemic Hot Spots Map a Path to Prevention
jane2007 submitted, created time 8 months 4 weeks (www.sciam.com)
A new study maps out areas of the world that researchers think are most likely to breed the killer diseases of the future—and the highlighted countries are not the ones getting most of the resources for disease prevention. The analysis is part of a budding effort to identify emerging viruses in particular and prevent future pandemics from reaching their full potential. 


Urban and food-bred animals as sources of disease
Darkfrog submitted, created time 9 months 4 weeks (www.sciam.com)
According to this writeup in SciAm, the way we grow our food could be breeding new diseases. Most human diseases start out in other species. Even HIV is hypothesized to be an offshoot of SIV. Chickens, they say, are a lot more likely to make us sick than pigeons are (although they're also less likely to excrete on the hood of my car, so it balances out). Now, I would have thought that the move to modern chicken husbandry, where far fewer humans have contact to large numbers of birds, would have made chicken-to-human diseases LESS likely, but it seems it's just the opposite 


Barrier to bird flu transmission found in humans
jane2007 submitted, created time 10 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
Umbrella-shaped sugars that decorate proteins in the nose and throat could be preventing widespread human-to-human transmission of avian flu, new research suggests. Whereas normal winter flu viruses easily latch onto these sugars, the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu cannot. This helps to prevent it from colonizing the upper respiratory tract — a key step in triggering an epidemic. 


Bird flu kills 350 ducks in northern Vietnam
Sue Wu submitted, created time 10 months 2 weeks (www.reuters.com)
HANOI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed 350 white-winged ducks in northern Vietnam this week, the first outbreak in poultry detected this year, the government said on Thursday. 


Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, 2nd in week
sumsung submitted, created time 10 months 3 weeks (www.reuters.com)
A 25-year-old Egyptian woman died of bird flu on Sunday, the second fatality among humans in Egypt in less than one week, the Health Ministry said. 


WHO Confirms Human-to-Human Bird Flu Case
jane2007 submitted, created time 10 months 3 weeks (www.abcnews.go.com)
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Thursday a single case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus in a family in Pakistan but said there was no apparent risk of it spreading wider. 
Regular flu vaccine may help against H5N1
Eric wu submitted, created time 10 months 3 weeks (www.reuters.com)
Bird flu nearly breaks out around the world every year. It not only kill many birds,but also a threaten against our mankind.How should we deal with it? This news may open a path toward it. 
Large bird flu cluster emerges
jane2007 submitted, created time 11 months 3 days (www.nature.com)
A team of experts from the World Heath Organization (WHO) is making its way north in Pakistan to investigate a cluster of at least eight cases of avian flu in people living near the Afghan border. They will be seeking to establish whether the disease is spreading, and whether the cases were caused by human-to-human transmission. 


Bird flu infects slaughterhouse worker in Vietnam
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.alertnet.org)
A Vietnamese man who works at a poultry slaughterhouse outside Hanoi has been infected with bird flu, the country's second human case in less than a month, state media on Saturday quoted a doctor as saying.Till then,the virus has infected 309 people in 12 countries, 187 of whom have died, according to WHO figures. These did not include the death on Tuesday of a 15-year-old Indonesian girl. 


Indonesia bird flu death hits 78
Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (news.xinhuanet.com)
The Health Ministry said Thursday: A 45-year Indonesian man, who died on Monday in Central Java, was positively infected by avian influenza, bringing the country's death toll to 78 out of 98 cases. 


New device detects avian flu strains fast
athena submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.reuters.com)
A new device can quickly detect 92 different viruses, including several strains of the feared H5N1 avian flu virus or other emerging new infections, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. 


CDC plays war game to test its bird flu response
medal submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.msnbc.msn.com)
"A leading U.S. health agency staged a war game this week to test its response to one of the worst health emergencies it could imagine — an outbreak of avian flu on American soil.“ 
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