Experts check into rash of child flu deaths
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Nine children have died of flu this season in Alabama, an unusually high number that has some experts worried, a pediatrician said on Thursday.
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Bird flu has killed a 10-year-old girl in  southern Vietnam, doctors said Monday, and they hoped the death  of a Cambodian women suspected of having the virus would force  Phnom Penh to take preventative measures.
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A case of avian influenza that killed an 11-month-old girl in Vietnam this month has alarmed health officials around the world.
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International tests have confirmed that a 7-year-old girl died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu earlier this month, bringing Indonesia&#039;s death toll from the virus to at least 38, a health official said Thursday.
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Four Nigerians are suspected to have died  from H5N1 bird flu, but tests on three of the victims were  inconclusive and the virus was confirmed scientifically in only  one case, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
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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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A pandemic of human influenza could kill up to 100 million people around the world, a World Health Organization official said today, significantly raising the agency&#39;s
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Doctors suspect bird flu may have killed  a four-year-old child in northern Vietnam, state-run radio said  on Wednesday.
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Officials began slaughtering poultry Thursday in an Indonesian village where preliminary tests showed a 15-year-old boy died from bird flu, as the country struggled with a sudden rise in deaths averaging one every 2 1/2 days.
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An unusually high number of children  have suffered severe illnesses from influenza in Alabama this  year, which has some experts worried, a pediatrician said on  Thursday.
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More than 100 children have died of encephalitis in the past month in India's most populous state, taking the toll this year to 372 as health officials said they hope colder weather may stem the tide.
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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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Four Nigerians are suspected to have died from H5N1 bird flu, but tests on three of the victims were inconclusive and the virus was confirmed scientifically in only one case, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
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Government health officials tried to build their case for school closings and similar steps during a flu pandemic by showcasing new research Monday that suggests such measures seemed to work during the deadly Spanish flu of 1918.
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An Indonesian toddler has died from bird flu after apparently coming into contact with dead poultry, health officials said Wednesday
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A 14-year-old girl in northern Thailand has died of bird flu, a health ministry official said Monday, raising the number of human fatalities from the disease in Southeast Asia this year to 32.
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TORONTO (CP) - In the wake of yet another avian influenza death in Thailand, the World Health Organization urged countries with flu vaccine production capacity and their manufacturers to speed up work on trial vaccines against the highly deadly H5N1 virus