Tamiflu could halve pandemic flu death toll: study
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Using antiviral Tamiflu could halve the potential death toll from an influenza pandemic if it was used both to treat and prevent the disease, its maker Roche said on Friday.
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MADISON - A drug envisioned as a front-line defense for the next flu pandemic might have a genetic Achilles&#39; heel that results in a drug-resistant influenza virus capable of infecting new human hosts, according to a study published this week (Aug.
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TORONTO - An anti-flu drug will remain a frontline defence against the virus, despite a new study that found more childhood cases of resistance than expected, an influenza expert with the World Health Organization said Friday.
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PARIS : A key weapon in the medical arsenal that will combat any future pandemic of killer flu may be worryingly at risk to resistance by the influenza virus, according to an early Japanese study published in Saturday&#39;s issue of The Lancet.
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They have reported promising results from a test vaccine that could slash the death toll. 30 per cent and more than halved the risk of getting severe malaria, which can be fatal.
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Ordinary seasonal flu vaccines may provide a small amount of protection against bird flu, Italian researchers reported on Wednesday.
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HONG KONG A global pandemic of avian influenza is &quot;very, very likely&quot; and could kill tens of millions of people around the world, a top World Health Organization official said Monday.
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Giving Africa&#39;s HIV-positive children a cheap antibiotic could nearly halve the death rate, research shows. The Medical Research Council trial in Zambia was stopped early when it became obvious how effective daily co-trimoxazole treatment was.
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PARIS -- A new technique for making human vaccines against the H5N1 avian influenza virus produces inoculations that are effective at very low doses, potentially solving the vexing problem of how the world will make adequate numbers of shots in the event of a flu pandemic. In an article published online today by the journal Lancet, Chinese researchers at the ...
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The World Health Organization said that a small but significant percentage of the main influenza virus causing illness this winter is resistant to the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu.
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Scientists next month will begin human testing of a vaccine to combat a possible flu pandemic that experts have warned could kill as many as seven million people, a Hong Kong newspaper reported today.
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BANGKOK: An influenza pandemic is likely to affect every country in the world leaving millions dead with no vaccines available until at least next March, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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Experts have called for closer study of less lethal strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus because they might be more likely candidates to spark an influenza pandemic.
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An outbreak of avian influenza (&#39;bird flu&#39;) among villagers in Thailand is raising fresh fears that spread of the virus, which kills 75 per cent of people it infects, could, at least in principle, reach pandemic proportions.
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BANGKOK - An influenza pandemic is likely to affect every country, leaving millions dead and more than a quarter of the world&#39;s population ill, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
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The 1918 Spanish flu that killed up to   50 million people worldwide caused a severe immune response   which may help to explain why it was so deadly, American   scientists said on Wednesday.
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LONDON - Another influenza pandemic similar to the one that killed between 20 and 40 million people in 1918 could be controlled by vaccinations and preventing new infections, American scientists said on Wednesday.