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http://europepanflu.blogspot.com [Pandemic Flu from Europe] vaccine, based on a modified strain of the virus, produced protective antibodies in a phase I trial involving 300 healthy volunteers, and was well tolerated with only a few cases of severe reactions, it said.

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[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: Even as the World Health Organization presses China and other countries to share bird-flu data for the public good, the WHO itself runs a database limited to a select group of scientists and containing a massive trove of data -- some 2,300 genetic sequences of the virus, around a third of the world's known sequences, according to two people familiar with the database's contents. Any one of those sequences could hold clues to an effective human vaccine or drugs that could kill the virus, or help scientists determine how great a threat it poses.

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Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.guardian.co.uk [Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | UK awards bird flu vaccine ...: UK awards bird flu vaccine contracts Agencies Friday February 24, 2006 .H5N1 blog Useful links Foreign Office: Advice to travellers on bird flu .

Nature.comhttp://www.nature.com [Nature.com] news @ nature.com - -: newRows += getNewSubRow('DarksideoftheUniverse', '/news/infocus/DarksideoftheUniverse.html', 'Dark side of the Universe'); newRows += getNewSubRow('dinosaurs', '/news/infocus/dinosaurs.html', 'Dinosaurs'); newRows += getNewSubRow('climatechange', '/news/infocus/climatechange.html', 'Climate change'); newRows += getNewSubRow('futurecomputing', '/news/infocus/futurecomputing.html', 'Future computing'); newRows += getNewSubRow('antibiotics', '/news/infocus/antibiotics.html', 'Antibiotics'); newRows += getNewSubRow('stemcells', '/news/infocus/stemcells.html', 'Stem cells'); newRows += getNewSubRow('birdflu', '/news/infocus/birdflu.html', 'Bird flu');

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