Scientists discover new key to flu transmission
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Flu viruses must be able to pick a very specific type of lock before entering human respiratory cells, U.S. researchers said on Sunday, offering a new understanding of how flu viruses work.
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Influenza viruses are quickly evolving resistance to the few drugs on the market that fight them, but there are weaknesses that could be exploited, experts told a conference on Tuesday.
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Flu vaccines are being distributed for people considered most at risk this flu season according to new criteria released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Scientists in China say they have discovered the highly virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu in pigs.
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Researchers have developed a new test that can detect bird flu infections in humans within hours. The new rapid test is a significant step forward in what could prove to be the catalyst for an overdue pandemic.
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Researchers have developed a new test that can detect bird flu in humans within hours, compared to up to a week or more for older tests.
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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.
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Experts have called for closer study of less lethal strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus because they might be more likely candidates to spark an influenza pandemic.
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Hundreds of students on the University of Michigan campus are part of a research study that could change the way the world looks at influenza.
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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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Leading scientists in Hong Kong have found that the H5N1 bird flu virus can infect cells in the upper airway of humans and need not penetrate deep in the lungs to cause infection.
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A WHO official noted that widespread, traditional Asian farming methods resulted in close contact between humans and animals, which meant a bird flu virus contagious among people was more likely to come from someone who caught avian influenza directly
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Scientists say they are developing an entirely new way of providing instant protection against flu.
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A mathematical analysis has confirmed that H5N1 avian influenza spread from person to person in Indonesia in April, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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An experiment to reconstruct the deadly 1918  flu virus gives new insight into how the infection took hold.
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US researchers believe they have found a weak spot in the flu virus that could be a target for new drugs.
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NEW YORK  - A multinational team of researchers has developed a system that can detect the bird flu virus on a throat swab specimen in less than 30 minutes.