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Assam on alert after bird flu spreads to new areas

December 3rd, 2008 - 10:56 am ICT by IANS -
Guwahati, Dec 3 (IANS) The Assam government has sounded a health alert and banned the sale of poultry following the spread of the deadly bird flu virus to newer areas, officials here ...

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High alert in Orissa after bird flu hits Assam

December 1st, 2008 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANS -
Bhubaneswar, Dec 1 (IANS) Orissa government has directed all officials to be on alert and take measures to prevent an outbreak of bird flu in the state after the disease hit areas ...

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40,000 poultry culled in Assam after bird flu outbreak

December 1st, 2008 - 10:43 am ICT by IANS -
Guwahati, Dec 1 (IANS) Authorities in Assam have culled some 40,000 poultry of an estimated 60,000 birds ordered to be killed after an outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus in the ...

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Assam bird flu due to migratory birds: Ramadoss

Assam bird flu due to migratory birds: Ramadoss

November 29th, 2008 - 3:33 pm ICT by IANS -
Chennai, Nov 29 (IANS) Migratory birds are behind the fresh outbreak of bird flu in Assam, Indian Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said Saturday, adding that culling operations had started in the northeastern ...

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Bird flu outbreak in Assam, culling operations on

November 29th, 2008 - 1:46 pm ICT by ANI -
Kamrup (Assam), Nov 29 (ANI): Authorities in Assam have started culling chicken and ducks since Friday following a fresh outbreak of bird flu in poultry. According to official reports samples have been ...

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12,000 birds culled in Assam after bird flu outbreak

November 29th, 2008 - 12:20 pm ICT by IANS -
Guwahati, Nov 29 (IANS) Authorities in Assam have culled some 12,000 of the estimated 60,000 birds ordered to be killed after an outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus in the region, ...

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‘About 30,000 poultry to be culled in Assam’

November 28th, 2008 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS -
Guwahati, Nov 28 (IANS) About 30,000 chickens and ducks will be culled in Assam during the next four days as an outbreak of bird flu in poultry has been reported in the ...

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Bird flu scare in Assam, 300 poultry dead

November 26th, 2008 - 10:07 pm ICT by IANS -
Guwahati, Nov 26 (IANS) More than 300 poultry birds have died in the past five days in some villages in Assam, fuelling fears of bird flu, officials said here Wednesday, adding that ...

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Nine Thai provinces under bird flu watch

November 13th, 2008 - 6:40 pm ICT by IANS -
Bangkok, Nov 13 (Xinhua) Thailand Thursday placed nine northern provinces under a special watch for the deadly bird flu after the disease was detected in two districts in the region recently. Health ...

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‘Media makes infectious diseases seem much worse’

November 3rd, 2008 - 4:32 pm ICT by IANS -
Tornoto, Nov 3 (IANS) Popular media coverage of infectious diseases make them seem worse than they are, according to a new Canadian study.Diseases that surface frequently in the print media -like bird ...

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Media coverage makes infectious diseases seem more threatening

October 30th, 2008 - 4:34 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Oct 30 (ANI): Intense media coverage makes infectious diseases seem more dangerous, according to a new study from McMaster University. The scientists indicated that diseases like bird flu, which can be ...

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Study confirms movement of bird flu from Asia to North America via birds

October 29th, 2008 - 3:46 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, October 29 (ANI): An international team of researchers claims that it has unearthed evidence for the movement of Asian forms of avian influenza to Alaska by northern pintail ducks. Scientists with ...

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World well prepared against bird flu pandemic: UN(Lead)

October 22nd, 2008 - 2:18 pm ICT by IANS -
New York, Oct 22 (DPA) The world is well prepared to beat back any major bird flu pandemic with 148 countries having made contingency plans to deal with the disease, the United ...

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World well prepared against bird flu pandemic: UN

October 22nd, 2008 - 2:07 pm ICT by IANS -
New York, Oct 22 (DPA) The world is well prepared to beat back any major bird flu pandemic with 148 countries having made contingency plans to deal with the disease, the United ...

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UK will be in terror grip till 2038, says Security Minister

UK will be in terror grip till 2038, says Security Minister

October 22nd, 2008 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI -
London, Oct.22 (ANI): A minister in the Gordon Brown-led British Cabinet has warned that the country could be terrorized by radical young Muslims for the next 30 years. Security Minister Lord West ...

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Google.org Battles Bugs & Viruses

Google.org Battles Bugs & Viruses

October 21st, 2008 - 3:16 pm ICT by admin -
Announces More Than $14 Million in Grants to Partners Working to Predict and Prevent the Next Pandemic Mountain View, Calif. (October 21, 2008) — Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), has ...

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Bird flu virus-based vaccine can protect both humans and pets

October 20th, 2008 - 12:57 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Oct 20 (ANI): US researchers have found that a single vaccine could be used to protect chickens, cats and humans against deadly flu pandemics. Based on a bird flu virus, the ...

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Double flu jab recommended against bird flu pandemic

October 9th, 2008 - 2:39 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Oct 9 (ANI): Vaccination will be the best way to protect people in the event of the next influenza pandemic but each person would need two doses, suggests an international ...

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Visiting the Taj Mahal is one of the ”Things Not To Do Before You Die”

September 17th, 2008 - 6:41 pm ICT by ANI -
London, Sept 17 (ANI): The Taj Mahal may be one of the Seven Wonders of the World but a new hilarious new book suggests ''not to visit the place before dying'', ...

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1918 pandemic antibodies could be effective against bird flu

August 18th, 2008 - 5:59 pm ICT by IANS -
Washington, Aug 18 (IANS) Researchers who isolated antibodies from the elderly survivors of the horrific 1918 flu pandemic, found that they could be equally effecitve against similar outbreaks in future. The pandemic ...

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Coming soon, a device that can detect bird flu outbreak in two hours

August 14th, 2008 - 1:38 pm ICT by ANI -
London, Aug 14 (ANI): Researchers from Nottingham Trent University in Britain are developing a device that can detect an outbreak of bird flu in two hours. Presently, it takes two to three ...

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Man dies of bird flu in Indonesia

August 3rd, 2008 - 5:48 pm ICT by IANS -
Xinhua Jakarta, Aug 3 (Xinhua) A 19-year-old Indonesian man has died of bird flu, raising the toll in the avian influenza to 112 in the country, the health ministry said Sunday. The man ...

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World at risk of ”inevitable” disease pandemic

July 21st, 2008 - 1:51 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, July 21 (ANI): The world is at the risk of an inevitable disease pandemic, which could kill 50 million people and wreak massive disruption around the globe, the Brit Government ...

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‘Dragon’ protein could be key to bird flu cure

July 17th, 2008 - 1:36 pm ICT by IANS -
Washington, July 17 (IANS) Scientists are edging closer to a cure for the commonest strain of bird flu, one that has killed more than 200 people and infected 400 people in 14 ...

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Scientists describe ”dragon” protein that could be key to bird flu cure

July 16th, 2008 - 3:52 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, July 16 (ANI): In a path-breaking study, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy''s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory working with scientists from China and Singapore, have unravelled the structure of ...

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Researchers discover how bird flu adapts in patients

July 9th, 2008 - 5:56 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, July 9 (ANI): Researchers at Mahidol University, Thailand, have discovered how bird flu adapts in patients - offering a new way to monitor the disease and prevent a pandemic. Despite the ...

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Celebrities” secret phobias revealed

Celebrities” secret phobias revealed

July 7th, 2008 - 6:41 pm ICT by ANI -
Melbourne, July 7 (ANI): Whether it''s cockroaches or heights, spiders or flying - everyone has a fear, and if you thought that the phenomenon of phobias do not exist for celebrities, ...

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New bird flu outbreak in Pakistan

June 23rd, 2008 - 12:28 pm ICT by IANS -
Xinhua Islamabad, June 23 (Xinhua) Pakistan has confirmed a new outbreak of avian flu in a poultry farm in the country's northwest, The News daily reported Monday. The virus was detected in Hamid ...

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Bird flu kills two women in Indonesia

June 20th, 2008 - 2:52 pm ICT by IANS -
DPA Jakarta, June 20 (DPA) Two women have died of bird flu in Indonesia, raising the country's human toll in the deadly H5N1 infection to 110 - the world's highest, a health ministry ...

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China confirms bird flu outbreak

June 17th, 2008 - 8:29 pm ICT by IANS -
Xinhua Beijing, June 17 (Xinhua) China Tuesday confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the southern province of Guangdong but said it was under control. Laboratory tests of dead ducks at Yashan village ...

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