Scientists Find Key to What Could Make Bird Flu a Human Pandemic
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MIT researchers say they may have discovered how avian influenza could become a pandemic. The discovery could lead to new ways to monitor and treat the virus.
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BANGKOK A day after Thai and international officials confirmed the first probable human-to-human transmission of a virulent strain of avian influenza in this country, public health systems around the globe were scrambling to prepare for a possible pandemic
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Scientists who synthesized two genes  from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic  said on Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it  so deadly.
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Authorities warn that millions of people could be killed. Humans, rather than animals, would be the carriers of the new flu. The high density of poultry and humans in several Asian countries has been blamed
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The World Health Organisation confirmed that it was examining a &quot;probable&quot; first full case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Thailand, raising fears of a deadly global flu pandemic.
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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 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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Scientists hope the understanding of past flu pandemics can help us better prepare for future crises.
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Another influenza pandemic similar to  the one that killed between 20 and 40 million people in 1918  could be controlled by vaccinations and preventing new  infections, American scientists said Wednesday.
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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.
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Health experts and drugs companies on Friday urged rich countries to come up with public funding to spur development of a human vaccine against a pandemic strain of the bird flu virus that could kill millions of people around the world within months.
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Health News, Every country in the world must come up urgently with a plan to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, a top global health expert said on Friday.
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The bird flu virus that can kill humans has the potential to be spread by cats, scientists have found.
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WHILE fears of a major bird flu pandemic proved unfounded last year - when only 32 people died â-ealth experts believe it may have been the precursor to a serious outbreak
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A laboratory in China says it has discovered a deadly strain of the bird flu in pigs, raising concern among scientists that the virus may be closer to changing into a form that is more easily transmittable to humans.
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Scientists find a potential reason to explain why the H5N1 strain of bird flu is so deadly for people.
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Could some people have a little immunity to the H5N1 bird flu virus? One study in mice published on Monday suggests it is, in theory, possible.