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Alarm bells ring over bird flu threat

Recent cases of bird flu infecting humans in southeast Asia have raised fears about the possibility of a new strain of human flu that could spark a pandemic. The new outbreaks of the influenza virus (strain H5N1) in poultry in Asia were linked by sporadic reporting of human cases of infection with this virus in Vietnam and Thailand last year. By the end of last month, there had been 54 cases of...

Ratio of CD4+ to CD8+ T-Cells in the Recent Reported Cases of Bird Flu Infection in Asia

Infected surfaces of vehicles as possible way of people's infection by bird flu pathogenic culture

Possible variant of people's infection by bird flu pathogenic culture in passing of everyday infection is presented in the work: through the contact of open parts of the skin with infected surfaces of the vehicle, that is the sequent of the reused water, which contains all species spectrum of pathogen accumulated on the urban areas, used in process of washing. The real threat of beginnings of p...

Flu pandemic fears continue

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....

Bird flu developments stoke fears

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...