Experts Confront Obstacles in Containing Virulent Bird Flu
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Scientists say they cannot predict how quickly, if at all, the strain may develop the ability to spread easily among people.
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About 60 experts meeting at the Geneva-based World Health Organization have agreed on a strategy to try to prevent and contain a global influenza outbreak that they say could kill millions of people.
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BANGKOK -- Thai and international health officials held an emergency meeting on Monday to review a case in which there is a &quot;very remote possibility&quot; bird flu was passed from human to human, a senior WHO official said.
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The global spread of the influenza virus will threaten the health of nearly everyone on Earth, but very little is being done to prevent its potential devastation, according to World Health Organization experts.
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Poultry experts are turning to  sophisticated computer imaging to help them prepare for the  expected arrival of the deadly bird flu virus in the United  States later this year.
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A group of Scottish scientists to create a centre of excellence in a bid to stop the threat of avian flu.
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Asia faces an outbreak of unprecedented proportions as it grapples with avian influenza, which the World Health Organization warns could develop into a pandemic unless detection and prevention methods are improved.
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UK experts try to determine the source of an outbreak of bird flu as a mass cull of turkeys nears its end.
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Pakistani authorities and World Health Organisation (WHO) experts were trying to determine on Tuesday whether bird flu had passed from human to human after the country reported its first human death from the virus.
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The outbreak of avian flu in Asia could become a pandemic, health experts have warned. Francois Xavier-Meslin, the World Health Organisation&#39;s disease control, prevention and eradication co-ordinator, said a health crisis is getting closer.
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BANGKOKâThai and international health officials held an emergency meeting early today to review a case in which there is a &quot;very remote possibility&quot; that bird flu was passed from human to human, a senior WHO official said.
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The deadly H5N1 form of the bird flu virus is rapidly mutating and the world must be on guard even though the disease has yet to be transmitted between humans, experts told a meeting in Beijing, Chinese media said on Tuesday.
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An expert who treated numerous bird flu victims in Vietnam has urged doctors not to lose hope with patients who are admitted late to hospital as there is still a good chance that they can survive.
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Scientists find a potential reason to explain why bird flu is so deadly for people.
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Health officials are concerned about a Bird Flu outbreak they say could kill millions of people. The World Health Organization says as many as seven million people could die and billions of others could get
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Every country in the world must come up with a plan to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, a top global health expert said on Friday.
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A case of bird flu in Thailand sparks fears of human to human transmission.