Scientists reveal how H5N1 kills
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Scientists find a potential reason to explain why the H5N1 strain of bird flu is so deadly for people.
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Four Nigerians are suspected to have died from H5N1 bird flu, but tests on three of the victims were inconclusive and the virus was confirmed scientifically in only one case, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
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Roche AG&#39;s Tamiflu anti-influenza drug has been proven to work against H5N1, the strain of the avian flu virus that the World Health Organization says could be the source of a deadly flu pandemic.
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Scientists said on Wednesday they have identified a weakness in a protein in influenza viruses which could be targeted by new drugs to halt the spread of infection.
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A previously unknown virus killed three women who got organ transplants from an Australian donor, and researchers say the technique they used to identify it could lead them to many more new infectious agents.
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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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Scientists in Singapore create a device that can detect the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in 30 minutes.
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Vietnam said two children who died of bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain, bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier this year.
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Hong Kong scientists have been researching a vaccine for the avian flu epidemic, commonly known as bird flu. Doctor John Nichols, a pathologist at Hong Kong University, says
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Indonesia has found traces of H5N1 bird flu in apparently healthy-looking poultry, making it tougher to detect the disease in the country hardest hit by the virus, officials said on Monday.
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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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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.
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The H5N1 strain of bird flu swept through 10 Asian countries early this year, resulting in the death or slaughter of over 100 million chickens and the deaths of more than 20 people.
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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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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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Two cases of bird flu in Russia have  been confirmed as being the deadly H5N1 strain, Russia's animal  and plant health watchdog said on Saturday.
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The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu which has killed at least 148 people is showing signs of being able to mutate and develop resistance to the most effective anti-viral drugs and any possible vaccines yet to be produced, a WHO scientist said Thursday.