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As Viruses Mutate, Flu Vaccine Becomes Inefficient
Sue Wu submitted, created time 7 months 2 weeks (www.efluxmedia.com)
The World Health Organizations issued a warning about the necessity of adapting next year’s vaccines to the new strains of viruses. U.S. officials, together with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also warned about the virus mutations that turn the current vaccines into inefficient methods to stop the infections. 
Drug-Resistant Flu Virus on the Rise
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 5 days (www.time.com)
This winter's most common flu strain is showing resistance to the frontline anti-flu treatment, new data shows. 


Study Shows Why the Flu Likes Winter
jane2007 submitted, created time 10 months 1 day (www.nytimes.com)
Researchers in New York believe they have solved one of the great mysteries of the flu: Why does the infection spread primarily in the winter months?The answer, they say, has to do with the virus itself. It is more stable and stays in the air longer when air is cold and dry, the exact conditions for much of the flu season. 


Bird flu kills Vietnamese teenager
Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.reutershealth.com)
Bird flu has killed a teenager in northern Vietnam, the second death from the poultry virus within a week, state-run Vietnam Television (VTV) quoted Health Ministry officials as saying on Tuesday. 


Pregnant Vietnamese woman dies of bird flu
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.reutershealth.com)
Doctors said on Tuesday, a Vietnamese woman who was seven months pregnant has died of bird flu, the country's third human death from the virus this year. 


France says H5N1 bird flu virus confirmed in swans
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.reutershealth.com)
Tests have confirmed that three swans found dead in eastern France were killed by the H5N1 bird flu virus, the French agriculture ministry said on Thursday. They are the first cases of the disease in France in over a year. 


Germany finds bird flu cases in wild birds
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.reutershealth.com)
More wild birds have tested positive in Germany for the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu, German authorities said on Wednesday. 


Flu could hitch a ride on banknotes
seanangel submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.newscientist.com)
Many strains of the virus can live for days on paper money, prompting fears that cash could help spread a future pandemic 


New Insights Into Enzyme That Enables Avian Flu Virus To Spread
Cindy submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.sciencedaily.com)
Amid heightened concern over a possible epidemic of bird flu in humans, scientists in the United States and Taiwan are reporting critical new insights into the architecture of a key enzyme in the H5N1 avian influenza virus that enables the virus to spread. 


Bird flu victim recovers, more birds die in Vietnam
crackpot submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.reutershealth.com)
The Animal Health Department said four bird flu cases in poultry were found over the weekend in the northern province of Bac Giang and near Haiphong city. Both have been on the government's bird flu watchlist along with 13 other provinces and a city. 


Bird flu infects slaughterhouse worker in Vietnam
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 4 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. 


New device detects avian flu strains fast
athena submitted, created time 1 year 4 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. 


Bird flu survivors’ blood may hold key to cure
badboy submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.msnbc.msn.com)
"Blood donated by four survivors of bird flu seems to harbor a potent protection against the deadly virus.
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Poor countries want fair deal for bird flu shots
badboy submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.msnbc.msn.com)
"Developing countries led by Indonesia demanded a fair deal on Tuesday for providing samples of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus that drug companies use to make vaccines." 


WHO may set up bird flu vaccine stockpile for poor
medal submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.alertnet.org)
"The World Health Organisation (WHO) is considering building a stockpile of up to 60 million vaccine doses to be used by developing nations to counter any influenza pandemic, its top bird flu official said on Wednesday." 