Ninth Victim-Bird Flu

Bird flu claims ninth victim this year in Indonesia

An Indonesian man has died of bird flu, the health ministry said, in the country's ninth fatal case this year. read more..

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Cambodian girl, 10, dies from bird flu: WHO

A 10-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization said Monday, the country's third fatality from the virulent disease this year. read more..

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U.S. Gives Green Light to Publish Controversial Bird Flu Research

FRIDAY, April 20 (Healthday News) -- The U.S. government is giving the go-ahead for publication of two controversial studies into the H5N1 avian (bird) flu virus, a top federal health official announced Friday. read more..

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World Health Organization-Bird Flu In Humans

Mutant bird flu 'less lethal', says paper's author

The author of a paper on a mutant bird flu strain said experts agreed to publish it only after he explained that the virus was "much less lethal" than previously feared. read more..

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Virulent Disease-Bird Flu

Vietnam approves new fund to fight bird flu

Vietnam has approved a new 23-million-dollar fund to tackle bird flu after new strains of the virulent disease emerged in the communist country this year, the health ministry said. read more..

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China: Bird flu death not from human-human spread

The strain of H5H1 bird flu that killed a Chinese man cannot spread among people, a health agency said Monday, appealing for calm after the country's first reported case of the disease in humans in 18 months. read more..

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Details of lab-made bird flu won't be revealed

The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people — and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that are easier to spread. read more..

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India's global pharmacy role threatened by EU pact

Efforts by India and the European Union to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver lifesaving medicines to the world's poorest, analysts say as the two sides push through protracted negotiations on a free-trade pact. read more..

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Bird flu still a menace in Asia and beyond

Thought bird flu was gone? Recent human deaths in Asia and Egypt are a reminder that the H5N1 virus is still alive and dangerous, and Vietnam is grappling with a new strain that has outsmarted vaccines used to protect poultry flocks. read more..

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Man dies of bird flu in southwest China: Xinhua

BEIJING (Reuters) - A man in southwest China died of bird flu on Sunday after three days of intensive care treatment in hospital, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry of Health as saying. The 39-year old -- who died in hospital in Guiyan, capital of Guizhou province -- began suffering from fever on January 6. Xinhua said China's centers for disease control and prevention at provincial and national levels confirmed the man had died after being infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain. ... read more..

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Hong Kong school closed in bird flu scare

A Hong Kong school was closed on Friday after a dead bird found in the city tested positive for the deadly H5 strain

A Hong Kong school was closed on Friday after a dead bird found in the southern Chinese city was tested positive for the deadly H5 strain of the bird flu virus, health officials said. read more..

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WHO: Bird flu research raises safety questions

The World Health Organization is warning that dangerous scientific information could fall into the wrong hands after U.S. government-funded researchers engineered a form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus more easily transmissible between humans. read more..

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U.S. Twin Births Soar: CDC

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (Healthday News) -- The birth rate for twins in the United States has jumped by 76 percent since 1980, Government Health Officials reported Wednesday. read more..

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Health Authorities-Southern China-Bird Flu Virus-Deadly Disease-Bus Driver

Man dies from bird flu in southern China

The H5N1 virus is fatal in humans in about 60 percent of cases

A bus driver in southern China who contracted the bird flu virus died Saturday, health authorities said, in the nation's first reported human case of the deadly disease in 18 months. read more..

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Journal Science-Bird Flu

Bird Flu Might Not Be as Deadly as Thought

A study published in the online journal Science has found that H5N1, more commonly known as bird flu, might be far less deadly than previously thought, according to a report by Reuters. The research contradicts earlier estimates by the World Health Organization. read more..

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Health Authorities-Southwest China-Bird Flu Virus-Human Death

Bird flu claims second victim in China

Most human H5N1 infections are the result of direct contact with infected birds

A man in southwest China who contracted the bird flu virus died on Sunday, health authorities said, the second human death from the virulent disease in the country in just under a month. read more..

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Bird flu claims third victim this year in Indonesia

Tests on a 19-year-old woman who died last week showed she had contracted the bird flu virus, Indonesia's third human death from the deadly disease this year, the health ministry said on Tuesday. read more..

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US to import short-supply cancer drug from India

Prescription drug shortages in the United States nearly tripled from 2005 to 2010

US health authorities said Tuesday they will import a drug to treat ovarian, bone marrow and AIDS-related skin cancer from India in order to ward off a worrying shortage. read more..

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Bird Flu Strain That Killed Man Won't Spread, China Officials Say

A Chinese bus driver died after complications from the bird flu virus Saturday, but after genetic analysis, the country’s Health Officials announced Monday that the strain contracted by the man can’t spread from person-to-person, the Associated Press reported. According to the country’s official Xinhua News... read more..

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Family Tips for Getting Fit

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) --Families hoping to improve their Fitness and overall health in 2012 should spend less time in front of a TV or computer screen and more time being active together, according to the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. read more..

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Bird Flu Studies Can Be Published After All: WHO

SATURDAY, Feb. 18 (Healthday News) -- Research on a mutated, more contagious form of the bird flu virus can be published in full, the World Health Organization announced Friday, despite concerns that bioterrorists could use the information to start a pandemic. read more..

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Study Links Colic in Infants to Migraines in Moms

MONDAY, Feb. 20 (Healthday News) -- Experts are beginning to believe some that some non-headache Health Problems in childhood -- such as vomiting and vertigo -- might be linked to migraines later in life. Now, a new study suggests a connection between mothers with migraines and colic in infancy. read more..

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