Flu 'hits Australian racehorses'
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Equine influenza appears to have spread to Australia's thoroughbreds after one tests positive for the virus.
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AN experimental bird flu vaccine had failed to protect chickens against the deadly virus, its Australian makers said today. Only a small percentage of the chickens inoculated in the first Australian trial
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By Jan Jarvis, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 21--GRAPEVINE -- Emily Lastinger was running a 103-degree fever and fighting the flu with lots of liquids and bed rest.
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Cats can get the avian influenza  virus decimating bird flocks across Asia, which means pets are  at risk of getting and spreading the disease -- and may serve  as a mixing pot for dangerous new mutations, Dutch researchers  reported on Thursday.
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A POTENTIALLY devastating equine disease has been detected in the heart of Newmarket&#39;s multi-million pound bloodstock industry.
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An unusually high number of children  have suffered severe illnesses from influenza in Alabama this  year, which has some experts worried, a pediatrician said on  Thursday.
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MALAYSIA yesterday announced new bird flu cases and said a veterinary worker had been hospitalised with a fever and cough. Officials said eight birds had died from the H5 strain of avian flu in three villages
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Cats can get the avian influenza virus decimating bird flocks across Asia, which means pets are at risk of getting and spreading the disease -- and may serve as a mixing pot for dangerous new mutations, Dutch researchers reported on Thursday.
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Four people have tested positive for bird flu linked to a low-risk strain found in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, as samples were being taken Saturday from another farm in the area.
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Indonesian poultry farmers, following a bird flu outbreak, are facing another mysterious disease that has killed thousands of chickens in the past few days.
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Results of tests to establish whether a farm worker contracted bird flu are due to be revealed.
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NEW YORK  - Endurance runners' strenuous training can erode their immunity and make them more vulnerable to catching colds, but a daily dose of "good" bacteria could bring their immune systems back up to speed, Australian researchers have shown.
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Oct 19, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A government official in Thailand said 23 tigers at a private zoo died of avian influenza after eating the carcasses of chickens believed to have had the disease, the Associated Press  reported today.
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Scientists said on Wednesday they have identified a weakness in a protein in influenza viruses which could be targeted by new drugs to halt the spread of infection.
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Australian authorities cancelled  thoroughbred racing in a second state on Tuesday, including the  iconic outback Birdsville races, as the nation&#39;s first outbreak  of equine flu spread.
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Roger Federer's Australian Open preparations suffered a blow on Monday as the defending champion was forced to withdraw with a virus from the Kooyong Classic warm-up event.
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The avian influenza virus known as H5N1 has killed millions of poultry in east Asia. Now researchers fear it may be tougher and more dangerous to humans than previously suspected.