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  • Face masks offer little protection from bird flu
    News - 7 May 2007
    According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the mass wearing of surgical face masks would do little to reduce the rate of infection in the event of an influenza pandemic.
  • Peramivir shows promise for H5N1 protection
    News - 2 May 2007
    The antiviral drug peramivir might offer humans significant protection during a pandemic of the avian influenza virus H5N1, according to results of mouse studies conducted by investigators at St. Jude...
  • U.S. ready for bird flu
    News - 17 Apr 2007
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States has approved for the first time a vaccine to prevent bird flu in humans.
  • Preparing for the next flu pandemic
    News - 11 Feb 2007
    A combination of antiviral drugs should be stockpiled for use in an influenza pandemic, say researchers in the British Medical Journal.
  • Molecular change in 1918 pandemic influenza virus stops transmission
    News - 31 Jan 2007
    Experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that a molecular change in the 1918 pandemic influenza virus stops its transmission in ferrets that were in close proximity,...
  • Bird flu death toll in Indonesia reaches 55
    News - 16 Oct 2006
    There have been another two confirmed deaths from bird flu in Indonesia which has taken the death toll there to 55.
  • So far no bird flu cluster in Indonesian village
    News - 24 Aug 2006
    According to health officials in Indonesia no evidence has been found of human-to-human transmission of H5N1 bird flu in the remote villages of West Java which have witnessed the latest outbreak of...
  • Have we got it right about bird flu?
    News - 8 Jun 2006
    Health officials in Indonesia must have breathed a sigh of relief at the the World Health Organisation's (WHO) news that bird flu has been ruled out in the cases of four Indonesian nurses who fell...
  • Bush wants $7bn to fight bird flu
    News - 2 Nov 2005
    U.S. president George Bush has called on Congress to approve $7.1 billion in emergency spending to pay for a strategy to prepare America for the danger of a pandemic bird flu outbreak.
  • A DNA-based vaccine could be a potent weapon against bird flu
    News - 19 Oct 2005
    Researchers scrambling to combat a virulent form of bird flu that could mutate into a form easily spread among humans should consider developing vaccines based on DNA, according to British biochemical...

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