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Recently some science researchers controversially created a form of bird flu that was easily transmissible by air. This weekend it was announced that the research has been halted.
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With the ongoing threat of a global influenza pandemic as a backdrop, the World Health Organization announced that it is working with a large pool of nations to more readily share viral samples to help avert more widespread infection.
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MANILA – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has set for next week the testing for avian flu of over 200 wild fowls seized by National of Bureau of Investigation (NBI) from a trader and his five companions last month.
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The H5N1 avian flu virus - aka bird flu - does not usually infect humans, but at least one strain has shown that when it does it leaves us significantly more susceptible to the risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
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The deadly H5N1 virus, a scourge among avian species in Asia, appears to have adapted to operate in swine populations, a report in the Archives of Virology finds.
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As if the world didn’t have enough to worry about, a hint of another type of trouble comes up. Every year we hear about pandemics, such as the flu. But why would a major company want workers in key world areas to return to Japan by September 2009?
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A severe drought in northern part of China could make the birds of the region more vulnerable to Avian Flu. The reports point out that the drought has been resulted due to lack of rainfall.
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A possible outbreak of avian flu on a farm near Abbotsford, B.C. may result in the culling of up to 60,000 turkeys. The first tests has shown that birds at E & H Farms are carrying a strain of avian flu.
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Nepalese authorities have begun slaughtering thousands of poultry and disposing of their carcasses in response to an outbreak of bird flu.
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Indonesia is running their first massive rehearsal drill for a potential pandemic of Avian Flu aka Bird Flu. They are doing this to see how prepared they would be should the bird flu start to spread from human to human.
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 Three years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at odds over the severity of this season's flu virus.
Experts have delayed a decision on whether controversial research into the H5N1 bird flu virus should be released.
The Olympics will increase the already "extreme" risk of a flu pandemic spreading in the UK, a report has said.
 Closing schools helps to slow the spread of flu during pandemics, a study of infection patterns in Alberta suggests.
 Researchers believe it could be years before the origin of an avian cholera outbreak that's killing off eider ducks in Nunavut is known.
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