New Test Detects Bird Flu Within Hours
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Researchers have developed a new test that can detect bird flu infections in humans within hours. The new rapid test is a significant step forward in what could prove to be the catalyst for an overdue pandemic.
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The outcome of tests into whether the lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu found in Britain this month was directly linked to a similar case in Hungary will be known by Tuesday, an EU official said.
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The discovery of a lethal strain of bird flu in Chinese pigs has taken the world closer to a human flu pandemic but there is no need to panic yet, the World Health Organisation said.
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Britain's farm ministry on Monday   unveiled a new bird flu strategy of testing more intensively in   areas and species where an outbreak is most likely to occur.
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A new blood test that can identify malaria infections within 15 minutes won approval from U.S. health officials on Tuesday.
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A fourth swan at a Dorset swannery tests positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu.
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Scientists believe they have found some of the steps needed for bird flu to turn into a pandemic strain.
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Mallard ducks in Pennsylvania have   tested positive for a low-pathogenic strain of the H5N1 bird   flu virus, the U.S. Agriculture and Interior departments said   on Saturday, adding to cases detected recently in Maryland and   Michigan.
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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.
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Tests are expected back on a couple at a smallholding where a mild form of bird flu has been confirmed.
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Two Egyptians have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, a day after an Egyptian woman died of the disease, Egypt's health ministry said on Thursday.
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China  said on Wednesday they have developed a test to detect bird flu  infections in humans within hours, which could give health  officials an important tool for controlling the killer virus.
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Veterinary experts have found a low-risk strain of bird flu in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, the principality&#39;s chief vet said Thursday.
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Critical laboratory tests which might help determine whether a Thai mother caught bird flu from her dying daughter are due to be finished on Tuesday, a senior Thai Health Ministry official said.
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Aventis-Pasteur and Chiron Corp are due  to start human testing of a vaccine against bird flu as early  as this month, a World Health Organization official said on  Saturday, to try to prevent a pandemic that could kill millions  of people.
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Critical laboratory tests which might  help determine whether a Thai mother caught bird flu from her  dying daughter are due to be finished on Tuesday, a senior Thai  Health Ministry official said.
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China said on Wednesday they have developed a test to detect bird flu infections in humans within hours, which could give health officials an important tool for controlling the killer virus.