New tests find deadly new virus that killed three
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A previously unknown virus killed three women who got organ transplants from an Australian donor, and researchers say the technique they used to identify it could lead them to many more new infectious agents.
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THERE have been three new deaths from bird flu in Vietnam, the World Health Organisation says, raising fears of a fresh outbreak of the disease in South East Asia.
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Fairfax County health officials said an elderly man has died of a suspected case of West Nile virus. If additional tests confirm the diagnosis, his death will be the first reported fatality from the virus in Virginia this year.
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Tests have confirmed an outbreak of foot and mouth disease at a third farm this month, the environment ministry said Tuesday.
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Three more suspected bird flu cases were found on Saturday in Thailand&#39;s central Prachinburi province, where a boy died of the avian influenza several days ago.
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Scientists who synthesized two genes  from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic  said on Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it  so deadly.
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Lab results have confirmed a deadly illness outbreak in southeastern Congo as Ebola fever, officials said Monday.
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Three swans found dead in eastern France carried the H5N1 bird flu that can be fatal to humans, tests confirm.
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A medical examiner was investigating Wednesday the death of 76-year-old man during a virus outbreak that sickened 679 people on a trans-Atlantic cruise.
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Health authorities in Sri Lanka have revealed that eight people recently died from a virus which showed symptoms similar to bird flu.
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Researchers have developed a new test that can detect bird flu in humans within hours, compared to up to a week or more for older tests.
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Scientists said on Monday they were  studying a potentially new virulent strain of the AIDS virus  taken from a New York man to see if it posed any public danger.
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A heron found dead near Hong Kong's  border with mainland China was carrying a bird flu virus, but  further tests are needed to determine if it is the strain that  has killed people, health officials said on Wednesday.
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KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia has detected three new outbreaks of bird flu in northeast Kelantan state, one of which is outside a quarantine zone around the first village hit by the deadly virus, officials said Tuesday.
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A wild bird which died of avian flu in Hong Kong is being tested for the lethal strain that has killed 32 people in Southeast Asia this year.
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HANOI -- Vietnam yesterday confirmed the sixth human death from bird flu in three weeks, and Thailand recorded its first case among poultry this year as health specialists expressed concern about a possible repeat of last year's devastating outbreak.
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Health authorities were investigating Friday a suspected new case of foot-and-mouth disease in a control zone and ordered cattle that showed symptoms of the virus slaughtered.