New Test Detects Bird Flu Within Hours
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Researchers have developed a new test that can detect bird flu infections in humans within hours. The new rapid test is a significant step forward in what could prove to be the catalyst for an overdue pandemic.
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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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BANGKOK, Thailand Oct. 3, 2004 - A 9-year-old girl in northern Thailand has tested positive for bird flu, the latest person infected by the virus since it resurfaced in Southeast Asia in July, a health ministry official said Sunday.
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LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - Britain's Health  Protection Agency said on Wednesday it had developed two  diagnostic tests to detect bird flu in case the outbreaks seen  in poultry spread to humans.
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Turkish authorities are testing four children for bird flu in a southeastern village where avian influenza has already infected the poultry, the agriculture ministry has said.
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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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Four people have tested positive for bird flu linked to a low-risk strain found in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, as samples were being taken Saturday from another farm in the area.
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Aventis-Pasteur and Chiron Corp are due to start human testing of a vaccine against bird flu as early as this month, a World Health Organization official said on Saturday, to try to prevent a pandemic that could kill millions of people.
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Advanced X-ray technology has helped scientists spot a new target that drug designers might use to attack the dreaded bird flu virus.
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New methods are being employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in areas considered to be at risk.
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NEW YORK  - A multinational team of researchers has developed a system that can detect the bird flu virus on a throat swab specimen in less than 30 minutes.
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A second person dealing with the bird flu outbreak in Suffolk is tested for the disease.
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Aventis-Pasteur and Chiron Corp are due to start human testing of a vaccine against bird flu as early as this month, a World Health Organization (news - web sites) official said on Saturday, to try to prevent a pandemic that could kill
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Wild ducks in Pennsylvania have tested positive for bird flu, but not the deadly Asian strain that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 141 people worldwide, the Agriculture Department said Saturday.
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Malaysia has detected a new outbreak of bird flu in a village in north-east Kelantan state, the sixth to be hit by the deadly virus in a month, officials announced today.
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The World Health Organisation last night confirmed that it was examining a probable first full case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Thailand.
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Scientists believe they have found some of the steps needed for bird flu to turn into a pandemic strain.