Dead aristocrat's hidden flu clue
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A Yorkshire aristocrat who died nearly 90 years ago could help the global fight against bird flu, experts say.
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Scientists who synthesized two genes from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic said Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so deadly.
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The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry confirmed Wednesday that one of five people suspected of having been infected with bird flu at a chicken farm in Kyoto Prefecture was the first person discovered to have carried the virus in the country.
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A young woman who died in Bangkok 10 days ago appears to have had the first confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of the "bird flu" that emerged in Southeast Asia last winter.
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A virus appears to be a prime suspect â but not likely to be the only culprit â in the mass die-offs of honeybees reported last fall and winter.
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A Thai woman who died of bird flu may be the first in the latest outbreak to catch it from human contact.
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By recreating the influenza virus that killed up to 50 million people in 1918-19, researchers may have identified the gene that turned it into one of the most lethal in human history.
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Seventy-year-old Homer Fink spent eight hours sitting next to a supermarket Halloween display for a flu shot that he wasn't able to get at five other places...
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BANGKOK Officials in Thailand announced Monday that a 32-year-old woman had been hospitalized with avian influenza and that two family members of the sick person had already died of a flulike illness, raising the possibility that these deaths might
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Federal investigators probing the smuggling of flu vaccine into the country have searched a home in Somers Point, and the head of nearby Shore Memorial Hospital said yesterday his hospital was offered the black market inoculations.
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A 90-year-old nursing home patient died from the stomach flu last year, marking the first time U.S. health officials confirmed that the highly contagious bug is sometimes fatal.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A mysterious illness is k
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Scientific sleuths have a new suspect for a mysterious affliction that has killed off honeybees by the billions: a virus previously unknown in the United States.
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Seventy-year-old Homer Fink spent eight hours sitting next to a supermarket Halloween display to get a flu shot that he wasn't able to get at five other places...
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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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Archaeologists have discovered the mummified remains of a doctor they believe lived more than 4,000 years ago and was buried along with metal surgical tools.
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Nguyen Thanh Hung's recovery is a mystery that flu experts are trying to decipher as they consider what impact his illness will have around the world.