Scientists reveal how H5N1 kills
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Scientists find a potential reason to explain why bird flu is so deadly for people.
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The strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys on a UK farm is identified as the H5N1 virus.
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Using a novel research technique, Hong Kong scientists find new ways to attack a deadly disease
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The H5N1 bird flu virus may sometimes stick to surfaces or get kicked up in fertilizer dust to infect people, according to a World Health Organization report published on Wednesday.
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"We would have sold them in one and a half months when they would have weighed 18 kg. Now they weigh 10 kg"  Hundreds of turkeys at a farm in eastern Czech Republic were killed by the H5N1 bird flu virus, the State Veterinary Administration confirmed on Thursday. via China View
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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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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 international team of scientists isolates antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans.
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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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The deadly H5N1 bird flu has killed a young man in Thailand, raising the death toll from the virus in Asia to 29 this year, Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said on Thursday.
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Tests have confirmed that three swans found dead in eastern France were killed by the H5N1 bird flu virus, the French agriculture ministry said on Thursday, France's first cases of the disease in over a year.
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A 10-year-old Egyptian girl who contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus died on Saturday, bringing the number of fatalities from the disease in the most populous Arab country to 15, the health ministry said.
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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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The World Health Organisation believes domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in Asia this year.
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Laboratory tests have confirmed that a 22- year-old woman in Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, died from the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu last month, the World Health Organisation said.
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Scientists who synthesized two genes  from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic  said Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so  deadly.
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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165  people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.