H5N1 Strikes Indian Poultry Farm
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Animal health officials in India reported an H5N1 avian influenza outbreak at a district poultry farm in Tripura state
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WHO Announces Hand Hygiene Efforts
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced its annual "Save Lives: Clean Your Hands" campaign designed to reduced healthcare-associated infections through better hand hygiene
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WHO Confirms Indonesian Child's H5N1 Death
Friday, 04 May 2012
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday confirmed the death of a 2-year-old Indonesian boy from H5N1 avian flu that the country's media reported several days ago
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Workshop will Address Lessons of the H5N1 Research Controversy
Tuesday, 01 May 2012
A public workshop to be hosted by the National Academies tomorrow will address the implications of the controversy over two studies describing lab-modified H5N1 viruses with increased transmissibility. The workshop, called "Issues Raised
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Rickettsia Pinpointed as Cause of Vietnamese Skin Disease
Friday, 27 April 2012
A mysterious skin ailment that has killed 19 people in Vietnam has been determined to be caused by Rickettsiabacteria, provincial health officials said, according to Xinhua,
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H5N1 Outbreaks Affect 25,000 Poultry in Bangladesh
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Nine Bangladeshi H5N1 avian flu outbreaks in March and early April affected more than 25,000 farm poultry, according to a report filed with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
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WHO Reports Progress on H1N1 Pandemic Mortality Estimates
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
The World Health Organization (WHO) is working on a preliminary global mortality estimate for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, and it recently posted an update on the work of a technical expert group that is in the early stages of gauging the impact
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Study Shows Poor Survival of H5N1 Viruses in Lab-Created Aquatic Biotopes
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Although highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu viruses lasted no more than 4 days in rainwater and not at all in experimental aquatic environments
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Egypt reports H5N1 death
Friday, 13 April 2012
A 36-year-old woman who succumbed to H5N1 avian flu has become Egypt's ninth H5N1 case-patient and fifth to die this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
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Canadian study: No pH1N1 risk tied to seasonal flu shot
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Receiving a 2008-09 seasonal flu shot neither raised nor lowered the risk of contracting 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu (pH1N1) during the spring wave, according to a population-based case-control study in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
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