The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people — and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that are easier to spread. read more..
World health ministers said Friday they were being vigilant after a Dutch laboratory developed a mutant version of the deadly bird flu virus that is for the first time contagious among humans. read more..
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| A Hong Kong school was closed on Friday after a dead bird found in the city tested positive for the deadly H5 strain |
A Hong Kong school was closed on Friday after a dead bird found in the southern Chinese city was tested positive for the deadly H5 strain of the bird flu virus, health officials said. read more..
A divide has emerged between the United States and the rest of the world on whether to publish or keep secret the details of an engineered mutant bird flu virus that can pass in the air between animals, health experts said on Wednesday. read more..
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| The H5N1 virus is fatal in humans in about 60 percent of cases |
A bus driver in southern China who contracted the bird flu virus died Saturday, health authorities said, in the nation's first reported human case of the deadly disease in 18 months. read more..
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| Most human H5N1 infections are the result of direct contact with infected birds |
A man in southwest China who contracted the bird flu virus died on Sunday, health authorities said, the second human death from the virulent disease in the country in just under a month. read more..
Tests on a 19-year-old woman who died last week showed she had contracted the bird flu virus, Indonesia's third human death from the deadly disease this year, the health ministry said on Tuesday. read more..
A Chinese bus driver died after complications from the bird flu virus Saturday, but after genetic analysis, the country’s Health Officials announced Monday that the strain contracted by the man can’t spread from person-to-person, the Associated Press reported. According to the country’s official Xinhua News... read more..
SATURDAY, Feb. 18 (Healthday News) -- Research on a mutated, more contagious form of the bird flu virus can be published in full, the World Health Organization announced Friday, despite concerns that bioterrorists could use the information to start a pandemic. read more..
MONDAY, Feb. 20 (Healthday News) -- Experts are beginning to believe some that some non-headache Health Problems in childhood -- such as vomiting and vertigo -- might be linked to migraines later in life. Now, a new study suggests a connection between mothers with migraines and colic in infancy. read more..
