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The H9N2 bird flu strain, identified as a possible pandemic threat, could be infecting more humans than commonly thought but its mild symptoms mean it often goes undetected, a leading Hong Kong bird flu expert said.
Countries around the world may be preparing for a possible H5N1 bird flu pandemic, but another strain called H9N2 also poses a threat to humanity, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Since their introduction into land-based birds in 1988, H9N2 avian influenza A viruses have caused multiple human infections and become endemic in domestic poultry in Eurasia. This particular influenza subtype has been evolving and acquiring characteristics that raise concerns that it may become more transmissible among humans. Mechanisms that allow infection and subsequent human-to-human ...
Natural Solutions Foundation alerts world to startling evidence that H5N1 virus may already have been genetically engineered, resulting in the potential for a man-made pandemic.
Aug 14, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Scientists have warned it's impossible to predict which avian influenza virus will spark the next pandemic, and while most of the attention has been on highly pathogenic H5N1, one research group is reporting new findings that raise concerns about the threat from the low-pathogenic H9N2 virus.
Aug 18, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Public health officials from Indonesia recently published an analysis of nearly all of the country's H5N1 avian influenza cases, revealing that death was more likely in those who received antiviral treatment late, were not part of a cluster, and lived in an urban area.
A U.S. government patent application raises a knotty question: Should a country own property rights to the diseases that afflict its citizens?
Late diagnosis and treatment means that more than 80 percent of people infected with H5N1 avian influenza in Indonesia have died, researchers reported on Wednesday.
South Korea plans to declare itself free of bird flu this week, more than three months after a series of outbreaks led authorities to slaughter nearly 8.5 million birds, an official said Sunday.
VIENTIANE, 14 August 2008 (IRIN) - A new Veterinary Law passed on 25 July is good news in the fight against avian influenza (AI - bird flu), given that Laos is surrounded by neighbours that have suffered severe AI outbreaks.
Pandemic planners may have been looking at the wrong avian influenza virus as the source of the next worldwide flu epidemic. A type of avian flu virus known as H9N2 could become transmissible in humans with just a few changes, a new study shows.
Associated Press - August 17, 2008 4:23 AM ET SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - An official in South Korea says his country is about to announce it's free of bird flu.
State officials say tests of birds in the state continue to show no signs of a dangerous strain of avian flu. Game and Fish Department bird management supervisor Mike Johnson says the testing is a continent-wide effort.
Rome - Scientists have detected for the first time in Nigeria a new strain of the virus that causes avian influenza - also known as bird-flu - a United Nations agency announced Tuesday. The find comes in the wake of Nigeria recently reporting two new...
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