IBM Offers Software to Track Bird Flu: HEALTH OFFICIALS CAN DOWNLOAD FREE PROGRAM
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By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 8--IBM said Thursday that it is giving health authorities and others around the world expanded access to free software it partly developed in San Jose to help track bird flu and other infectious diseases.
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In a sign of the growing movement for alternatives to the industry-dominating Microsoft Office suite, IBM said Wednesday that more than 100,000 registered users downloaded the beta of its free office productivity software, Lotus Symphony, in its first week.
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Online tools can help workers assess their planâs health.
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New methods are employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in at-risk areas.
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China has shared human bird flu samples for the first time in more than a year, giving a boost to international efforts to track the deadly H5N1 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China said Wednesday they have developed a test to detect bird flu infections in humans within hours, which could give health officials an important tool for controlling the killer virus.
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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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IBM on Monday will unveil  software it developed in coordination with U.S. health agencies  and private hospitals that makes it easier for health care  workers to exchange clinical data in a medical crisis.
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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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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Malaysian agriculture officials confirmed Thursday bird flu has been detected in two chickens in the northern state of Kelantan.
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New methods are being employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in areas considered to be at risk.
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Poultry farmers who participate in a   program to prevent the spread of diseases would be fully   compensated for loss of birds and equipment if low-pathogenic   strains of avian influenza are found, the U.S. Agriculture   Department said on Friday.
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BANGKOK - The World Health Organization on Friday urged Asian countries to provide full disclosure and strengthen the information-sharing to curb the bird flu outbreak.
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion  plans to offer IBM's Lotus Connections business networking  software as a free download later this year, the company said  on Wednesday.
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IBM on Monday will unveil free developer resources for Cloudscape, a small-footprint, Java-based database that the company recently contributed to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Building a stockpile of bird flu vaccine would help ensure that poor countries do not lose out if a flu virus starts killing people worldwide, the World Health Organization's top flu official said yesterday.
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion   plans to offer IBM's  Lotus Connections  business networking software as a free download later this  year, the company said on Wednesday.