New U.S. bird-flu plan advises when to close schools
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Future disease pandemics will be scored in the United States much like hurricanes, with the most severe triggering school closings and changes in the workplace, under federal guidelines issued on Thursday.
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The World Health Organisation has warned that a global Bird Flu pandemic is now inevitable. Officials say they fear the virus will spread globally within weeks, affect up to 30 per cent of the world&#39;s population and kill between two and 7 million people.
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Monitoring of wild migratory birds to prevent a deadly bird flu virus is expanding to cover the entire nation and U.S. territories in the Pacific.
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Federal health advisers recommended Tuesday that the government approve the first bird flu vaccine as a stopgap measure
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Southeast Asian countries have approved a plan to combat bird flu that aims to curb the spread of the disease and reduce the likelihood it will lead to a more deadly human pandemic.
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By Dennis O'Brien, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 14--With the flu season expected to peak next month, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine reported today that vaccinating schoolchildren against the disease reduces not only their risk but that of their families as well.
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U.S. policy in preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic is veering dangerously toward a heavy-handed law-enforcement approach, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday.
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Hong Kong - Up to 100 million people could die within weeks if a bird flu pandemic broke out, a senior World Health Organisation official warned on Monday as he urged nations to make urgent preparations to mitigate its spread.
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Bird flu will hit the United States &amp;#151; it&#039;s only a matter of time &amp;#151; and not all states are ready to respond to the deadly virus, the Homeland Security Department&#039;s top doctor warns.
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A top World Health Organization official warned Saturday of a likely global pandemic of avian flu unless tougher efforts are made to combat the virus&#39;s spread and improve sanitation in the poultry industry.
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Is a bird flu pandemic coming? Health experts say there is no way to know, and especially no way to know when.
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Scientists believe they have found some of the steps needed for bird flu to turn into a pandemic strain.
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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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Kuala Lumpur (VNA) - Southeast Asian countries have endorsed a plan to combat bird flu that aims to prevent the disease from spreading and reduce its risk for human pandemic after a two-day meeting in Singapore .
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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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Three schools closed until Monday because of an outbreak of flu-like symptoms, an official said Thursday.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Three children exposed to the carcasses of culled chickens were hospitalised with flu-like symptoms on Wednesday as Malaysia mulled whether to widen a quarantine to cover an entire state near the Thai border to contain a spreading bird flu