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Bird flu fears widen
Western Europe is seeing a growing number of cases of H5N1 flu in wild birds that have migrated from the east, but new outbreaks in poultry in Africa threaten the hordes of birds heading north for the summer breeding season. Worries about the disease are likely to grow. The Tower of London's famous ravens are now, for the first time in 400 years, locked up inside the building. The move marks gr...
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The appearance of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Europe, and particularly the outbreak reported last month in Turkey, has heightened already raised concerns about the spread of the virus and its potential to seed the next human pandemic. There are new worries about how the disease appeared to infect birds almost simultaneously in 13 provinces scattered around Turkey and further concerns about w...
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but nobody took any notice, because this was also the day J.F. Kennedy was shot dead. Similarly, the biggest influenza pandemic of the 20th century killed 20 million people in 1918/19, but did not make the top headlines, because there was a World War going on at the same time. To this day, the disease wrongly labelled the Spanish flu has remained a footnote in the history books. Recently, howev...
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The new strain of bird flu first identified in southern Asia has now reached Europe, raising local fears about a jump to humans as researchers have controversially reconstructed the deadly Spanish flu virus as a means to determine the factors contributing to its virulence. Michael Gross reports.
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The threat of a flu pandemic is greater than ever because of the continuing spread of the bird flu virus in southeast Asia, the World Health Organisation warned last month. With bird flu outbreaks now being reported for more than 12 months, despite countermeasures, the possibility of a global epidemic that could kill millions of people is considered by some officials to be more likely than not....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.047