Will masks stop bird flu? Students experiment
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Can wearing a face mask and regularly cleaning hands stop the spread of deadly bird flu? Students at the University of Michigan started a living experiment on Tuesday to find out.
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Preliminary results from an early clinical trial of a vaccine for pandemic bird flu suggest the vaccine is safe and well tolerated and may prove effective against divergent strains of the disease, Baxter International Inc. said on Wednesday .
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Scientists find a potential reason to explain why bird flu is so deadly for people.
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Hong Kong authorities may ban the slaughtering of poultry by retailers in a bid to prevent a bird (avian) flu pandemic. The WHO has warned that the next global pandemic may come from a mutated bird flu virus.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A teenager from  the village at the center of a bird flu outbreak has been  hospitalized with cold symptoms, Malaysia's health minister  said on Friday, as poultry farmers counted their losses.
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By ANDREW BRIDGES WASHINGTON - A bird flu vaccine that's even less effective than previously thought could still play an important role in protecting against the increased likelihood of a pandemic, a government health official said Tuesday.
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Indonesia claimed a major victory in the fight against bird flu Thursday, saying the heart of the capital had been cleared of backyard fowl and that residents elsewhere were handing in chickens for slaughter. But poultry could still be seen roaming freely in suburban neighborhoods and some people hid pet birds in their homes, raising doubts the campaign would prevent further human deaths in the country hardest-hit by the virus.
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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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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.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Three children exposed to the carcasses of culled chickens were hospitalised with flu-like symptoms on Wednesday as Malaysia mulled whether to widen a quarantine to cover an entire state near the Thai border to contain a spreading bird flu
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Ordinary seasonal flu vaccines may provide a small amount of protection against bird flu, Italian researchers reported on Wednesday.
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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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Outfitting swans with super-light Teflon backpacks containing solar-powered GPS satellite transmitters is the latest way scientists and researchers are trying to fight the spread of avian influenza.
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Children at a primary school are offered  bird flu medicine as one of the pupils is believed to have the virus.
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Global health experts have warned Southeast Asia it must unite to combat the spread of bird flu. The World health Organisation says the virus has the potential to become the next human influenza pandemic.
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By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- Last year's influenza vaccine was far from a perfect match against the virus that sickened people, but it offered more protection from the illness than experts had previously thought.    In very young children, the shot was found to be 25 percent to 49 percent effective in preventing influenza-like illness, which is a suspected case of flu that wasn't confirmed in a laboratory...
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A series of measures are being taken to prevent animal epidemics since a bird flu outbreak in the country in the spring. Local governments have reinforced the monitoring of bird flu.