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[Wish Everyone Good Health.] How the Bird Flu is Spread | Wish Everyone Good Health.: If a person does become infected with the H5N1 strain of the bird flu, it is not likely that they will spread it to others. All of the human cases have happened because they got it directly form the infected birds.

[Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News] Vietnam finds bird flu in chicken smuggled from China: report: The communist government last week reported that an eight-year-old girl from Thanh Hoa province fell ill with bird flu after her family prepared and ate infected poultry. The girl is recovering, health officials said.

[Vietnam News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com] Bird flu infects poultry in 2nd province in Vietnam - Worldnews.com: HANOI: Vietnam has detected bird flu in chicken smuggled from China as the illegal trade picks up ahead of the lunar New Year later this month, state media reported Tuesday. Eight out of 16 poultry samples tested by animal health officials in the northern border province of Lang Son were infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza, the Lao Dong (Labor) newspaper said.

[Health Topic - A Free VIP Center!] Avian Flu: Frequently Asked Questions | Health Topic - A Free VIP ...: Although human-to-human transmission is inefficient, all influenza viruses have the ability to change genetically, and scientists are concerned that the H5N1 virus could one day be able to spread easily from one person to another. Because the virus does not commonly infect humans, there is little or no immune protection against it in the human population.

[Vietnam Economy RSS News Feed by Intellasia.Net] Bird flu infects poultry in 2nd province in Vietnam -- Vietnam's ...: Five Vietnamese people died of bird flu in 2008 out of six reported H5N1 infections, all in the north of the country in the first quarter of the year, when cool temperatures allow the virus to thrive best.

[Javno.com (Hrvatski)] Bird Flu Infects In 2nd Province In Vietnam - World - Javno: Bird Flu Infects In 2nd Province In Vietnam Some 400 chickens in Thanh Hoa`s Ba Thuoc district had died of the disease, the agriculture ministry said in a report seen on Wednesday.

[Wish Everyone Good Health.] Bird Flu Human To Human? | Wish Everyone Good Health.: A prominent bird flu specialist from the Hong Kong university suggested it was for more likely the bird flu was passed from human to human - in this case from his infected brother. Dr Henry Niman, a biochemist in Pittsburgh says health .

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Bird flu infects poultry in 2nd province in ...: Bird Flu Monitor: What's new in the world of pandemic and avian ...: Protein 'tubules' free avian flu virus from immune recognition: Adrien Collins’s homepage: Just another blog.dspot.si weblog: stretches of dna, .

[beijing-kids.com - Beijing's essential expat family resource] Is Bird Flu Back? | Beijingkids Blog | Food | Jan 7, 2009 ...: Bird flu hasn’t been hitting the headlines in recent times, but that doesn’t mean China is rid of it. Since the outbreak in mid-2003, only Japan, South Korea and Malaysia have managed to eradicate the virus, according to the WHO.

[SuperWeed] Bird Flu and You | SuperWeed: Here’s a compromise: Read Chapter 1 (”1918″), which will make it real for you, plus all of Section II (”When Animal Viruses Attack”), which will give you a good grounding in the biology and history of zoonoses as well as all the evidence you need to argue that factory farming (rather than migrating free birds) is the source of the current emergency —

[Effect Measure] Effect Measure : Today is bird flu's birthday: The extreme move, which follows a ban on chicken imports from China, was announced Sunday by Hong Kong Director of Health Margaret Chan after doctors confirmed at least 12 cases of the H5N1 virus, four of which were fatal. Nine other people, ranging widely in age, are suspected of having the virus, a particularly virulent type previously believed to infect only birds.

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[World Pharma News] World Pharma News - US Department of Health and Human Services ...: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every year an estimated 3 to 5 million people worldwide become seriously ill from influenza, and as many as 500,000 - primarily children and the elderly - die from ensuing complications[1]. A recent study conducted by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that, in the US alone, the total economic burden (including direct medical costs, lost wages and impacts on productivity) imposed by such epidemics averages somewhere in the neighborhood of USD 87 billion every year[2].

[JustGetThere - Hot News] China Confirms Woman Died Of Bird Flu In Beijing - JustGetThere: In neighboring Vietnam, a five-year-old has been infected with bird flu, the first human case reported in the country this year, Vietnam's state-run television said on Tuesday.

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