Bird flu paper that raised terrorism fear published
The journal Nature has published the first of two controversial papers about laboratory-enhanced versions of the deadly bird...
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India drugmakers give flu vaccines a second shot
Indian drugmakers, which in 2010 rushed to make cheap flu vaccines against the newest strain of H1N1 in response to an outbreak...
Hong Kong restricts poultry imports over bird flu
Hong Kong on Thursday suspended imports of poultry products, including eggs and frozen meat, from China's northeastern Liaoning...
Texts prime parents to get kids a flu shot: study
Research in New York City suggests that sending parents educational text messages about the flu vaccine and where to get...
Bird flu studies OK to publish: biosecurity expert
A U.S. biosecurity panel's recommendation that two controversial papers on bird flu be published in full is not a reversal...
Scientists find gene that can make flu a killer
A genetic discovery could help explain why flu makes some people seriously ill or kills them, while others seem able to bat...
Dutch cull 42,700 turkeys after bird flu found
Dutch authorities said 42,700 turkeys have been culled at a farm in the south of the country after a mild variant of the...
China sends man to labor camp for SARS rumor
Police in a north China city said on Monday that they have sentenced a man to two years of "labor re-education" for spreading...
Bird flu not so deadly after all, new report claims
Bird flu may be far less lethal to people than the World Health Organization's assessment of a death rate topping 50 percent,...
Deadly bird flu studies to stay secret for now - WHO
Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will...
CORRECTION: How secure are labs for world's deadliest pathogens?
To reach his office in Galveston National Laboratory, where scientists study deadly pathogens such as the Ebola and Marburg...
How secure are labs for world's deadliest pathogens?
To reach his office in Galveston National Laboratory, where scientists study deadly pathogens such as the Ebola and Marburg...
CORRECTION: Decision time for researchers of deadly bird flu
When 22 bird flu experts meet at the World Health Organization this week, they will be tasked with deciding just how far...
Decision time for researchers of deadly bird flu
When 22 bird flu experts meet at the World Health Organization this week, they will be tasked with deciding just how far...
Nerve disorder does not recur after later vaccines
Despite concerns by some that vaccines might cause a crippling nerve disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome, a new study...
U.S. panel defends call to censor bird flu studies
A potentially deadlier form of the bird flu virus poses one of the gravest known threats to humans and justifies an unprecedented...
Bird flu mutation studies must go on: scientist
A scientist researching a potentially highly lethal airborne version of the H5N1 bird flu virus said on Wednesday he must...
Stockpiled flu drug has "modest" benefits: reports
After billions of dollars worldwide have been spent stockpiling the anti-flu drug Tamiflu, two new reports cast doubt on...
Man dies of bird flu in southwest China: Xinhua
A man in southwest China died of bird flu on Sunday after three days of intensive care treatment in hospital, the official...
Bird flu researchers suspend study of mutations
Researchers studying a potentially deadlier, airborne version of the bird flu virus have voluntarily suspended their studies...
More labs close to deadly bird flu mutations
An international debate over whether to censor new research on bird flu may soon prove academic, as other laboratories close...
Bird flu virus doesn't jump between humans: China
The latest bird flu virus that killed a 39-year-old bus driver in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen over the weekend...
China reports suspected human bird flu case
China has reported a suspected human case of the H5N1 virus, or bird flu, in a southern city bordering Hong Kong, officials...
WHO "deeply concerned" by mutated birdflu research
The World Health Organization issued a stern warning on Friday to scientists who have engineered a highly pathogenic form...
Hong Kong culls chickens at market as H5N1 found
Workers began culling 17,000 chickens at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong on Wednesday after a dead chicken there...
Bird flu bioterror risk upped by censorship: experts
Any number of laboratories worldwide could engineer bird flu viruses into bioterror weapons capable of causing a human pandemic,...
U.S. asks journals to censor bird flu studies
A U.S. scientific advisory board Tuesday asked two scientific journals to leave out data from research studies on a lab-made...
Pandemic flu vaccine protected pregnant women
The vaccine against the new 2009 flu strain offered high levels of protection for pregnant women and their babies, a new...
Past flu exposures weakened pandemic severity
Immunity gained by coming down with a previous, seasonal version of the flu helped temper the severity of the pandemic flu...
World needs to update its flu vaccines: study
As Americans line up for flu shots, they should consider that the vaccines may be far less effective than thought, according...
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