Quick test for bird flu devised
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Scientists in Singapore create a device that can detect the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in 30 minutes.
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Independent tests carried out in Italy have confirmed the presence for the first time of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry from the west African nation of Togo, officials said Wednesday.
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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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Tests performed in Japan have identified that country's first human case of avian influenza and four other cases that are almost certainly the same ailment.
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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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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk has been identified as the H5N1 virus.
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PENANG, Malaysia  - A Malaysian veterinarian and  her three children have received a clean bill of health after  tests for bird flu, leaving no suspected human cases of the  deadly virus after an outbreak among poultry, the government  said on Monday.
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A low risk strain of bird flu is discovered at a smallholding in St Helens, Merseyside.
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In an effort to combat a possible pandemic of Asian bird flu, researchers have developed a new test that can detect the virus in humans within hours.
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Scientists said on Wednesday they had  made a breakthrough in the race to develop a drug for the H5N1  bird flu virus if it mutates into a form that can jump from  human to human.
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The Department of Health is setting up a surveillance system against bird flu to aid health workers to manage possible cases of the disease among humans, it was learned Saturday.
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Officials confirmed Saturday that the H5N1 strain of bird flu had been found in turkeys on a commercial farm &#151; Britain's first mass outbreak of the disease that has ravaged Asia's poultry stocks and killed more than 160 people worldwide.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia  - Malaysian officials on Saturday were testing three people who fell ill in a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, after international health officials warned that the virus appeared to be entrenched in parts of ...
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Government scientists - sure that somewhere out there a bird flu virus has humanity&#39;s name on it - are speeding up efforts to understand how the viruses evolve and spread.
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Hong Kong scientists have been researching a vaccine for the avian flu epidemic, commonly known as bird flu. Doctor John Nichols, a pathologist at Hong Kong University, says
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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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Leading scientists in Hong Kong have found that the H5N1 bird flu virus can infect cells in the upper airway of humans and need not penetrate deep in the lungs to cause infection.