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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Last year over 36,000 Americans died from exposure to the flu, and of those, more than 32,000 were 65 years of age or older. Another 200,000 people were hospitalized with symptoms of the illness.
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Scientists have said a woman who died of bird flu probably contracted the disease from her daughter.
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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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Indonesia is investigating a possible   cluster of bird flu cases after a man died and his brother and   sister were hospitalized, one of them testing positive for bird   flu, a doctor said on Tuesday.
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Up to 100 million people around the world could be killed in a pandemic of human influenza, a World Health Organization official warned Monday.
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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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An eight-year old girl from Northern Thailand has died from the disease, becoming the country&#39;s 11th confirmed victim. The latest human fatality is causing concern that the bird flu virus does not look set
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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 World Health Organization (WHO) Friday called for measures to prevent a flu pandemic in humans after China said a deadly strain of bird flu was found in pigs, adding to signs that an outbreak among people was likely.
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While every human death from bird flu commands widespread attention, some experts are urging the world not to forget killer diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, which claim millions of lives each year.
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Midway through the month when influenza typically peaks, health officials were monitoring four hospitalized Nebraska children, while three North Carolina schools remained closed over widespread symptoms of the illness.
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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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The avian influenza virus known as H5N1 has killed millions of poultry in east Asia. Now researchers fear it may be tougher and more dangerous to humans than previously suspected.
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The U.N. health agency described the deaths of six Indonesian family members from bird flu as the most important development in the spread of the virus since 2003, saying the size of the cluster and difficulties in determining the source were worrying.
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As bird flu spreads in the region, Vietnam is deploying teams of veterinary experts nationwide to inspect efforts to fight the disease that has killed 19 people in the country, including three this month, officials said Monday.
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Health authorities in Indonesia have begun investigating whether a nine-year-old girl who died this week of the H5N1 strain of bird flu belonged to a cluster of human cases.