Flu-Like Virus Sickens Military Recruits
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SEATTLE Oct. 3, 2004 - Four military recruits died in the past year and thousands others were sickened by a flu-like virus that the military once had a vaccine program for but abandoned to save money.
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HONG KONG : Two more children have come down with fever and symptoms of respiratory infections in a hospital where an outbreak of flu has claimed one life and stricken another 33.
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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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WASHINGTON Aug. 25, 2004 - Closing schools, restricting travel and rationing scarce medications may be the nation&#39;s first protections if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak because it will
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A case of avian influenza that killed an 11-month-old girl in Vietnam this month has alarmed health officials around the world.
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(CBS/AP) Four military recruits died in the past year and thousands others were sickened by a flu-like virus for which the military once had a vaccine program that was abandoned to save money.
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Deployed military troops, emergency  workers, pregnant women and children will be among the first to  get scarce vaccinations if a pandemic strain of flu breaks out,  U.S. officials said.
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A 16-year-old girl from southern Vietnam has become infected with the bird flu strain that killed 32 people earlier this year and devastated the poultry industry across Asia, a doctor said Thursday.
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The discovery of a high incidence of  malaria among U.S. soldiers returning from Afghanistan prompted  a call on Tuesday for doctors to check repatriated military  personnel for the disease.
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Health officials yesterday said 22.4 million unshipped doses of flu vaccine will be made available to people who are most at risk of getting the virus.
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World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that an outbreak of bird flu mixed with a human influenza virus could kill millions of people across the globe that had the potential to be worse than the SARS virus.
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A woman becomes the fifth person in two weeks to be infected with avian flu in Vietnam, raising fears of a new epidemic.
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Health Department officials are warning residents to take extra precautions against contracting and spreading influenza this season.
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Each year the influenza virus infects between 5 percent and 20 percent of our country&#39;s population, bringing 200,000 hospitalizations and more than 36,000 deaths.
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HANOI - A 16-year-old girl in Vietnam&#39;s southern province of Tay Ninh has been found to be infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, a hospital said Thursday.
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Midway through the month when influenza typically peaks, health officials were monitoring four hospitalized Nebraska children, while three North Carolina schools remained closed over widespread symptoms of the illness. And in Oklahoma, 400 students were out sick with the flu, though no schools were closed, authorities said.
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KUALA LUMPUR : Five Malaysian navy sailors have been hospitalised for bird flu tests after possibly coming into contact with diseased birds while patrolling the disputed Spratly islands, officials said on Friday.