New market-based system aims to predict bird flu
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Is a bird flu pandemic coming? Health experts say there is no way to know, and especially no way to know when.
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The World Health Organisation has warned that a global Bird Flu pandemic is now inevitable. Officials say they fear the virus will spread globally within weeks, affect up to 30 per cent of the world&#39;s population and kill between two and 7 million people.
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A computer programme can predict a woman's risk of breast or ovarian cancer with unprecedented accuracy.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - Data for Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine support its safety and effectiveness for use in the event of a widespread outbreak, a U.S. advisory panel said on Tuesday.
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TORONTO (CP) - The alarm now sounds with increasing frequency and urgency: the world could be on the brink of an influenza pandemic sparked by the highly virulent avian flu strain ravaging poultry stocks in Southeast Asia, experts fear.
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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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Aventis-Pasteur and Chiron Corp are due  to start human testing of a vaccine against bird flu as early  as this month, a World Health Organization official said on  Saturday, to try to prevent a pandemic that could kill millions  of people.
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UK scientists have developed two tests for avian flu to safeguard against an outbreak.
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Most health experts agree that Asian bird flu poses a grave danger and will likely spread unless urgent steps are taken. But some virologists caution that alarmist warnings could harm preparedness plans.
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A computer program can predict a woman's risk of breast or ovarian cancer with unprecedented accuracy.
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In an effort to combat a possible pandemic of Asian bird flu, researchers have developed a new test that can detect the virus in humans within hours.
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A new device can quickly detect 92 different viruses, including several strains of the feared H5N1 avian flu virus or other emerging new infections, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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The World Health Organization says that Asia faces a Bird Flu (avian flu) pandemic if things do not change soon. The WHO said that detection and prevention methods need a complete overhaul.
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Scientists find a potential reason to explain why bird flu is so deadly for people.
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Authorities warn that millions of people could be killed. Humans, rather than animals, would be the carriers of the new flu. The high density of poultry and humans in several Asian countries has been blamed
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Scientists say they have identified a key reason why bird flu has so far not hit humans hards.
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Scientists say they have found a key reason why bird flu has so far not posed a widespread threat to humans.