A Pandemic That Wasnât but Might Be
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Experts argue that preparations against avian flu have to continue, even if the virusâs failure to mutate into a pandemic strain has given the world more time.
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One of history's deadliest diseases has been making a comeback. Scientists want to know why
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WASHINGTON - The United States may have to close schools, restrict travel and ration scarce medications if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak, according to federal plans for the next pandemic, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.    It will take months to brew a vaccine that works against the kind of super-flu that causes a pandemic, although government preparations include research to speed that production...
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LONDON - Rapidly vaccinating the masses is the key to fighting pandemics, say scientists who concluded the flu pandemic of 1918 was less contagious than thought.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing for a potential pandemic with steps that include expanding the ability of employees to work remotely, plus cots, food and water in data centers in the event of a quarantine.
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The disclosure was highly unusual in a country whose populace is both hard hit by the disease but reluctant to acknowledge it.
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It&#39;s encouraging that a conference on AIDS was held in Indianapolis last week. The pandemic has infected 38 million people. The Indiana University School of Medicine has partnered with a Kenyan university
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Health experts warned today that the world was closer to its next pandemic - a potent mix of bird flu and a human influenza virus, with Asia as its likely epicentre.
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LONDON - 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 on Wednesday.
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The discovery of a lethal strain of bird flu in Chinese pigs has taken the world closer to a human flu pandemic but there is no need to panic yet, the World Health Organisation said.
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The specter of a global influenza pandemic has loomed a little larger in recent weeks with revelations that Chinese researchers found the deadly H5N1 virus strain last year in pigs, a crucial link in the mutation of the disease to a form that can infect
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The freeze on air traffic after the   September 11 attacks delayed the 2001-2002 flu season, and   researchers were able to confirm what many had long suspected   -- air travel could help spread a bird flu pandemic very   efficiently.
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where public health systems, already weak, are now overwhelmed. &quot;There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable
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The risk of a flu pandemic remains high despite possible public fatigue with the issue, but the World Health Organization is hopeful the bird flu virus will do less damage than in past years during Asia's upcoming colder months, an official said Sunday.
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More than a year after President Bush unveiled a plan for coping with a pandemic flu outbreak, the government still has limited capacity to detect a disease outbreak.
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The outbreak of avian flu in Asia could become a pandemic, health experts have warned. Francois Xavier-Meslin, the World Health Organisation&#39;s disease control, prevention and eradication co-ordinator, said a health crisis is getting closer.
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Plans to have large numbers of employees work remotely in the event of an influenza pandemic could fall apart if Internet traffic reaches bandwidth-choking levels, business continuity planners say.