Scientists Find Deadly Component of 1918 Flu Virus
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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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Vietnam said initial tests showed a 14-month-old boy died from bird flu, but that it was unclear if the child was infected from the same H5N1 strain of the virus that killed 19 people in the country earlier this year.
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Flu viruses must be able to pick a very specific type of lock before entering human respiratory cells, U.S. researchers said on Sunday, offering a new understanding of how flu viruses work.
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Washington - The reddish bacterium to blame for this year&#39;s shortage of flu vaccine has a colorful history. Until the 1960s, Serratia marcescens was considered harmless - so safe, in fact, that the military
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China's southern Guangdong Province is the source of the dangerous H5N1 avian flu virus, according to a genetic analysis of the virus published on Monday.
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Oct 4, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A young girl who died Sunday night is Thailand&#39;s 11th avian influenza victim, a health ministry spokeswoman told news services on Monday.
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BEIJING : UN health and agricultural officials urged China to provide more details after a top bird flu scientist revealed the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus had been found in the country&#39;s pigs.
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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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Nine children have died of flu this  season in Alabama, an unusually high number that has some  experts worried, a pediatrician said on Thursday.
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By making tiny changes to a modern flu virus, US scientists were able to recreate the flu virus that caused the 1918 influenza epidemic that killed millions of people around the world.
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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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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165  people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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This was the Big One &#151; a deadly flu epidemic. But fortunately it was a fake.
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An experiment to reconstruct the deadly 1918 influenza virus has given a new insight into how the infection took hold of its victims.
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The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu which has killed at least 148 people is showing signs of being able to mutate and develop resistance to the most effective anti-viral drugs and any possible vaccines yet to be produced, a WHO scientist said Thursday.
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Nine children have died of flu this season in Alabama, an unusually high number that has some experts worried, a pediatrician said on Thursday.
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Three swans found dead in eastern France carried the H5N1 bird flu that can be fatal to humans, tests confirm.