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Recently, public health measures, surveillance, and vaccination have helped bring about significant progress in reducing the impact of seasonal flu epidemics, caused by human...
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Bird flu can be spread by close contact with an infected bird (dead or alive).
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Experts have warned that the recent detection of bird flu in mammals including foxes, otters, minks, seals and even grizzly bears.
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The highly contagious H5N1 avian flu virus has killed thousands of pelicans, blue-footed boobies and other seabirds in Peru.
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Several outbreaks of severe bird flu in Europe and Asia have been reported in recent days to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE),...
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During a telephone press briefing on Wednesday, Wenqing Zhang, head of WHO’s global influenza department, told reporters “Constant change is the nature of all...
Life
News media has been tracking and reporting on the different strains of bird flu spreading across Europe and Asia since last year. With over...
World
On Monday, Denmark went ahead and ordered poultry farmers to keep their flocks indoors, the country’s environment and food ministry said. The order takes...
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Avian flu, according to the World Health Organization, is an infectious viral disease of birds. Most avian influenza viruses do not infect humans; however...
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The virus was found in a wild duck in Alaska, as part of a routine surveillance program conducted by the USDA that has been...