In a Daylong Drill, an Agency Tries to Prepare for a Real Outbreak of Avian Flu
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted its first âfull functionalâ avian flu exercise to prepare what public heath experts consider a major threat.
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The health department has requested 95,800 doses from the CDC for people at high risk for influenza and their caretakers.
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Preparations for this year&#39;s influenza season were upended Tuesday when federal officials announced that the country&#39;s supply of flu vaccine would be half of what had been expected.
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One day after officials with the NC Division of Public Health released a draft plan for dealing with an influenza pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported there would be a shortage of flu vaccines this year.
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The federal government's voluminous plans for dealing with pandemic flu do not adequately account for the overwhelming strain an outbreak would place on hospitals and public health systems trying to cope with millions of seriously ill Americans, some public health experts and local health officials...
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Waterfowl hunters in Virginia are being enlisted in the fight against avian flu.
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An outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm was caused by a strain that has killed humans, the authorities said.
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The Health Department has hesitated to release any information about the flu vaccine because things change daily, but at this point it is pretty clear that the shortage is real and permanent.
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Thai and international health officials  were due to hold an emergency meeting on Monday to review a  case in which there is a "very remote possibility" bird flu was  passed from human to human, a senior WHO official said.
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The U.S. government urged employers on Tuesday to develop plans to cope with a possible flu pandemic, suggesting letting employees work from home and encouraging sick workers to stay home without reprisals.
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On the cusp of flu season, federal health officials are attempting an unprecedented redirection and rationing of the flu vaccine -- after a British regulatory agency abruptly
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Warnings of a possible worldwide flu outbreak have local health officials spreading the word: Get in early for a vaccination. County health officials say preparation is essential since the Centers
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The F.D.A. is demanding that Chiron provide more information about its plans to fix widespread sanitary problems at its flu vaccine factory in England.
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Hong Kong&#39;s 30 government departments and agencies and the Center for Health Protection CHP)ended here Friday a two-day drill to test their preparedness against an outbreak of an unknown communicable disease in Hong Kong.
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A string of problems were identified at the Bernard Matthews plant before the recent outbreak of bird flu.
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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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Questions must be raised as to why it has taken such a long time to determine that former employees at a poultry farm in Kyoto Prefecture struck early this year by a massive outbreak of bird flu were infected with the virus during the incident.