Experts dampen bird flu fears
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International health officials at an emergency meeting in Bangkok Monday said there is no evidence that bird flu has been passed from one human to another.
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BANGKOK -- Thai and international health officials held an emergency meeting on Monday to review a case in which there is a &quot;very remote possibility&quot; bird flu was passed from human to human, a senior WHO official said.
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World Health Organization experts helping  Vietnam to battle a recurrence of bird flu said governments  should be cautious about prematurely announcing they had beaten  the disease, which has killed 27 people this year.
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The UK is drawing up plans to deal with a possible outbreak of bird flu, amid warnings that it poses a significant threat.
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The spread of bird flu may be waning but the world must keep up its guard against the threat of a human influenza pandemic, which is almost certain in the longer term, senior health experts said on Thursday.
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Doctors have expressed concerns about the government's plans for a flu pandemic.
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Supermarkets say fears that turkey in shops could be infected with bird flu have not hit sales.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Officials of the World Health Organization say they fear the bird flu virus in Southeast Asia could become a worldwide pandemic capable of killing anywhere from two to seven (m) million people.
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BANGKOK : Bird flu fears in Thailand prevented passers-by from helping four people injured in an accident between a drunk-driver and a pick-up truck full of chickens, rescue officials said on Sunday.
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Officials are concerned about the possible spread of serious ailments such as cholera, typhoid and malaria and also issued warnings about the bird flu virus.
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An international team of scientists isolates antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans.
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One of Russia's main zoos  has closed down after the deaths of two geese sparked a bird  flu scare, but a local health expert ruled this out as the  cause of their deaths.
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BEIJING - International health experts are downplaying reports that a strain of bird flu has been found in pigs, saying outbreaks among poultry in Thailand and Malaysia are more worrisome.
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Security at the Asia Pacific leaders summit in Sydney next week was dealt a blow on Tuesday when the city's mounted police horses were diagnosed with equine flu, ruling out a major crowd control measure.
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The deadly H5N1 form of the bird flu virus is rapidly mutating and the world must be on guard even though the disease has yet to be transmitted between humans, experts told a meeting in Beijing, Chinese media said on Tuesday.
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U.S. officials are looking in the wrong place to stop bird flu, suggests a new study, which questions the usefulness of testing Alaskan birds migrating from Russia.
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Scientists in China have developed a bird flu vaccine for poultry and mammals that can fend off the deadly virus and help stop its spread, the China Daily newspaper said on Monday.