A War and a Mystery: Confronting Avian Flu
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A spate of recent deaths has stirred fears of a broader outbreak among people and raised the possibility of a human pandemic.
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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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Recent studies have shown that waterfowl are a crucial link in the spread of East Asia's avian influenza epidemic.
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Questions must be raised as to why it has taken such a long time to determine that former employees at a poultry farm in Kyoto Prefecture struck early this year by a massive outbreak of bird flu were infected with the virus during the incident.
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Every country in the world must come up  urgently with a plan to deal with an inevitable influenza  pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit  Asia this year, a top global health expert said on Friday.
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Every country in the world must come up with a plan urgently to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, a top global health expert said on Friday.
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When a new strain of bird flu jumped species to infect humans, scientists dreaded a global epidemic. Now they have warned governments to prepare for the worst.
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ROME : The bird flu epidemic in Asia is a &quot;crisis of global importance&quot; and the virus is unlikely to be eradicated soon, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) warned.
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There are chilling warnings in Asia that an inevitable global influenza pandemic could kill millions. This warning comes after the fight against SARS and bird flu left many countries weary.
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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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The World Health Organization (WHO) has  raised the specter of human-to-human transmission of deadly  avian influenza following confirmation that two Vietnamese  brothers had contracted the virus and one had died.
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BANGKOK - A 26-year-old woman who died of avian flu eight days ago almost certainly contracted the disease from her daughter in what could be the first documented case of human to human transmission of the virus, health officials say.
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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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Studies of flu outbreaks in Indonesia and Turkey found that waiting for laboratory confirmation of an avian flu outbreak causes potentially dangerous treatment delays.
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While every human death from bird flu commands widespread attention, some experts are urging the world not to forget killer diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, which claim millions of lives each year.
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Sep 14, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Avian influenza and other diseases that originated in animals show that the World Health Organization (WHO) needs to pay more attention to animal health, the WHO&#39;s regional director for the Western Pacific said at an
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Even as avian flu has faded from the headlines, the lethal viral illness continues to strike in certain corners of the world and, in an especially ominous development, health authorities said they believe it has reemerged in Vietnam, where control measures had stopped its spread for more than a year.